NASA instruments document contraction of the boundary between the Earth's ionosphere, space
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 08:42
in Astronomy & Space
Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. These observations were made by the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) instrument suite, which was launched aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite on 16 April 2008...