Ionosphere

News & Articles

A rocket launches into the blue sky from a snow-covered launch range, leaving a bright cloud of rocket exhaust in its wake.

NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth

6 min read

An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as…

Article4 months ago
ICON, shown in this artist’s concept, studied the frontiers of space, the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above.

NASA’s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs

5 min read

After contributing to many important findings on the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space — an area where space weather…

Article5 months ago
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…

Article6 months ago
An image of the Sun shows a bright flash in the bottom right side where a solar flare erupts.

How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades

5 min read

May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of…

Article7 months ago

Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes

5 min read

The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse path…

Article9 months ago
A rocket launches against a blue sky. A cloud of dust gathers below the rocket.

NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse

5 min read

UPDATE: The three rockets comprising the APEP mission launched on Monday, April 8, 2024, at 2:40pm, 3:25pm, and 4:28pm ET from…

Article9 months ago

Multimedia

Keep exploring

Discover More Topics From NASA

Puzzle Page #5: Heliosphere

SSC/NSSC

Collab Between NASA and Missy Elliott

F.5 FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Clarifications and Corrections

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam citizen science instrument from a mere 5,400 miles above Jupiter's cloudtops.