Earth Sun ID: 4607

GOLD in Geostationary Orbit

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on January 4, 2018

The GOLD instrument will be riding as a passenger instrument onboard a commercial communications satellite positioned in geostationary orbit.

GOLD will scan the disk and limb of Earth with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph to measure the response of Earth's ionosphere to the various forcings in the Sun-Earth system.

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Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Visualizer
Sarah L. Jones (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Genna Duberstein (USRA): Producer
Joy Ng (USRA): Producer
Kathalina Tran (SGT): Writer
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support

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Mission:
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)

This item is part of this series:
Interface to Space

Keywords:
GCMD >> Location >> Ionosphere
SVS >> Orbit
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> Geosynchronous
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0