SPACE HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSER: NASA INSTRUMENTS DOCUMENT CONTRACTION OF BOUNDARY BETWEEN EARTH'S IONOSPHERE, SPACE
December 15, 2008
December 15, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- NASA's Earth Observatory division issued the following press release:
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/ . . .
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/ . . .