GOLD Media Telecon
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD explores in unprecedented detail our space environment — which is home to astronauts, radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, as well as satellites that provide communications and GPS systems.
On January 25, 2018, the mission will launch as NASA's first-ever hosted payload.
Speakers for the January 24, 2018 media telecon about the mission include:
Richard Eastes, Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder
Elsayed Talaat, Heliophysics Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters
Susan Batiste, Systems Engineer, LASP/CU
Katelynn Greer, Research Scientist, LASP/CU
Replay information will be available until January 31, 2018 noon ET, via:
Toll free, from within the U.S.: 1-866-469-5761
Toll: 203-369-1460
Image 1: Artist rendering of SES-14 satellite, the spacecraft that will carry GOLD as NASA's first ever hosted payload. Credit: NASA/CIL/Chris Meaney
Image 2: Infographic depicting layers of Earth's upper atmosphere. Credit: NASA Goddard/Genna Duberstein
Image 3: Signals transmit through the ionosphere. Clip from Welcome to the Ionosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim
Image 4: Members of the GOLD science team gather with the instrument in a LASP clean room on December 1, 2016, just after the instrument went through its pre-ship review ahead of shipment to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. Credit: LASP
Image 5: Exterior view of the GOLD instrument. Credit: LASP
Image 6: Interior view of the GOLD instrument. Credit: LASP
Image 7: GOLD scans the ionosphere. Credit: NASA Goddard/SVS/Tom Bridgman
Image 8: NASA's Heliophysics Fleet. Credit: NASA/Amy Moran and Jenny Mottar
Image 9: Artist rendering of Sun-Earth interaction. Credit: NASA
Image 10: Tidal temperature perturbations from TIE-GCM model run on a pressure level near 167 km. Credit: K. R. Greer
Image 11: Earth's weather impacts the ionosphere. Clip from Welcome to the Ionosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:47 PM EDT.