GOLD Stories

In the background, the bottom half of the image is filled with a portion of Earth. The top half is the very dark blue of space. Separating the two are bands of glowing greens and red, depicting the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere. In the foreground, a satellite. The satellite has two rectangular wing-like structures jutting out from the right and left of a silver rectangular box. On the top are 3 large white dishes.

Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere

5 min read

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…

Article5 months ago

GOLD’s Bird’s-Eye Reveals Dynamics in Earth’s Interface to Space

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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…

Article3 years ago

Postcards from the Edge of Space: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science

9 min read

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…

Article5 years ago