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    GOLD’s Top-Down View of Our Atmosphere

    Satellite data overlaid over an outline of Earth shows twin bands of emission near the equator at night.

    From its vantage point in geostationary orbit, NASA's GOLD mission – short for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk – has given scientists a new view of dynamics in Earth's upper atmosphere. Together, three research papers show different ways the upper atmosphere changes unexpectedly, even during relatively mild conditions that aren't typically thought to …

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