Suggested Searches

The Sun Spot

Viewing Posts from June 2021

View All Posts

    What Is a TID? It’s a TAD More Complicated Than We Thought

    infographic showing the layers of the atmosphere including the ionosphere, as well as the red, green and UV airglow

    By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center About 50 miles up, Earth's atmosphere undergoes a fundamental change. It starts at the atomic level, affecting only one out of every million atoms (but with about 91 billion crammed in a pinhead-sized pocket of air, that's plenty). At that height, unfiltered sunlight begins cleaving atoms into …

    Read Full Post