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Message Subject SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)
Poster Handle Helios Maximus
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NASA ICON Mission launched this month to study the Ionosphere in more detail.

NASA's ICON to explore boundary between Earth and Space
by Lina Tran for GSFC News
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2018


NASA heliophysics missions study a vast interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets, and to the farthest limits of the Sun's constantly flowing stream of solar wind. ICON's observations will provide key information about how Earth's atmosphere is connected to this complex, dynamic system.
Early in the morning of Nov. 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where Earth meets space: the ionosphere.(snip)

Depending on the energy it absorbs from the Sun, the ionosphere grows and shrinks. For that reason, scientists long thought this part of space was only affected by what happens in the space above it.

But over the past decade, a growing body of evidence has indicated the region is much more variable than we can explain with solar activity alone. The ionosphere's contents are not evenly distributed: Dense patches of its charged gases, called plasma, are scattered throughout. Eventually, researchers linked these patches to global weather patterns - large-scale events such as several hurricanes rushing across the ocean at once, or changes in cloud formation over tropical rainforests.

Though the Sun provides the energy that drives weather we experience on Earth, day-to-day weather is driven by something very different: differences in temperature and moisture, interactions between oceans and land, and regions of high and low atmospheric pressure. Still, scientists were surprised to discover that terrestrial weather and the Sun manage to meet in the middle - at the ionosphere - in a tug-of-war for control.

More here-
[link to www.spacedaily.com]

ICON Mission Home:
[link to icon.ssl.berkeley.edu]

***This article does nothing to debunk the HAARP conspiracy-- in fact, it almost supports it!

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