Meet ICON: NASA’s Airglow Explorer

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  • intermediate
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NGSS
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Requirements
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CreditNASA Goddard
Language
  • english

This ~2 minute video is about how NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Mission measures the ionosphere, which is where Earth weather meets space weather. Airglow is different from aurora -find out why!