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Film, Video The Upper Atmosphere: Where Space Weather Meets Earth Weather

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Title

  • The Upper Atmosphere: Where Space Weather Meets Earth Weather

Summary

  • Sarah Jones discussed two of NASA's newest missions, GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk) and ICON (Ionospheric Connections Explorer), which will determine how weather shapes the Earth's interface to space. At the boundary between Earth and space, charged particles and fields co-exist with Earth's neutral atmosphere and cause a continual tug of war between the neutral and ionized gases. Events like hurricanes create waves that can travel up to this region, while the Sun frequently releases blasts of solar material to impact it. This changes the shape of the boundary between Earth and space and can garble signals being transmitted from satellites.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2018-06-07.

Headings

  • -  Science, Technology

Notes

  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Classification: Technology.
  • -  Sarah Jones.
  • -  Recorded on 2018-06-07.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690785

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. The Upper Atmosphere: Where Space Weather Meets Earth Weather. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-07, 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690785/.

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Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Science, T. (2018) The Upper Atmosphere: Where Space Weather Meets Earth Weather. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690785/.

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Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. The Upper Atmosphere: Where Space Weather Meets Earth Weather. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-07, 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690785/>.