GOLD Stories
Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere
Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above our heads called the ionosphere. While…
GOLD’s Bird’s-Eye Reveals Dynamics in Earth’s Interface to Space
New research using data from NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission, has revealed unexpected behavior in the swaths of charged particles that band Earth’s equator – made possible by GOLD’s long-term global view, the first of…
Postcards from the Edge of Space: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science
Download related briefing material from Dec. 10’s press conference at the 2019 American Geophysical Union meeting. In a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, three scientists presented new images of…