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Meet ICON: NASA’s Airglow Explorer Film

Levels
  • Intermediate (6-8)
  • Advanced (9-12+)
Material Type
  • Film/Documentary/Show
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 1.2 – The Sun is active…
NGSS
  • ESS2 - Earth's Systems
  • PS1 - Matter and its Interactions
  • PS2 - Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
  • PS4 - Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
Heliophysics Topics
  • Atmosphere
  • Aurora
Heliophysics Missions
  • ICON
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

This roughly 2-minute video is about how NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Mission measures the ionosphere, which is where Earth weather meets space weather. One phenomenon ICON explores is airglow, a kind of glowing energy in the high atmosphere caused by interactions with solar plasma.

Airglow is different from aurora, and this video explains why!