NASA's ICON and Airglow -- Daytime View (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's ICON and Airglow -- Daytime View

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Charged particles in Earth s atmosphere -- which make up the ionosphere -- create bands of color above Earth s surface, known as airglow. ICON, depicted in this artist's concept, will study the ionosphere from a height of about 350 miles to understand how the combined effects of terrestrial weather and space weather influence this ionized layer of particles.

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Credit: NASA Goddard's Conceptual Image Lab/B. Monroe

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