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NASA Launches a Mission To Study the Border of Earth and Space (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new NASA mission, the first to hitch a ride on a commercial communications satellite, will examine Earth's upper atmosphere to see how the boundary between Earth and space changes over time. GOLD stands for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, and the mission will focus on the temperature and makeup of Earth's highest atmospheric layers. Along with another upcoming satellite, called ICON, GOLD will examine how weather on Earth -- and space weather caused by the sun -- affects those uppermost layers. GOLD, which will inspect the ultraviolet radiation that the upper atmosphere releases, will also be the first to take comprehensive records of that atmospheric layer's temperature. The satellite carrying GOLD will orbit 22,000 miles (35,400 kilometers) above Earth in a geostationary orbit, which means GOLD will stay fixed with respect to Earth's surface as the satellite orbits and the world turns. GOLD will pay particularly close attention to Earth's thermosphere, which is the gas that surrounds the Earth higher than 60 miles (97 km) up, and the layer called the ionosphere, which forms as radiation from the sun strips away electrons from particles to create charged ions. And although solar flares and other interactions on the sun do have a strong impact on those layers, scientists are learning that Earth's own weather has an impact on the layers, too.
Between the Earth and the Space! Martians will pay for it!
Because they MUST be trolls. Seriously, nobody can be that stupid and still keep breathing.
Hey, I hate Donald Trump too, but I'm not going to whine about it. He won the election, end of story. Grow up and stop being a poor sport.
The first four threads posted here are all cancer.
Your move slashdot.
Does that border have a lot of Mexicans jumping it like the US borders?
From the sun the affects shouldn't affect weather much beyond normal seasons and slightly elliptical orbit variations that are already known. What could be interesting is the reverse, how weather on Earth affects the ionisphere and thermosphere as it will be looking at that too. Ionisphere varies on night and day cycles due to the radiation, but that really just affects RF communications. It would be cool if it showed something unexpected, however.
'NASA launches a mission to study blah, blah, blah'. No, it WILL launch a mission towards the end of the month. Then you can write 'NASA launches a mission'.
How much budget did they waste on finding this stupid acronym?
Study Border between Earth and Space: SBES
There, that's your fucking acronym.
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So, is this going to tell us why we don't fall off?
You misspelled "Trump and his cronies"
Let's make earth great again.
Once again Chris Reimer contributes nothing to the conversation.
Chris.
Why don't you explain to us in your own words what the difference is between a child bride and an underage bride?
Then you can explain to me the difference between slavery and marrying one of these underage (BUT NOT CHILD!) brides in exchange for giving her village elders your stuff when you die?
An outsider desperately wants attention
with the least effort possible
his name is Chris
(My haikus are available now, not on April 1st 2018, Two Ton!)
NSA trying to prove to the flat-earthers that the earth is really triangular.
This seems to be a really niche bit of science yet somebody convinced some people that it was worth spending a lot of money on as opposed to the types of missions mere mortals can appreciate like manned missions to some place other than the ISS.
You're too stupid to recognize a Men in Black movie reference. Border patrol rounds up a group of illegal aliens when they get stopped by MiB, who in turn pulls out an illegal alien from space disguised as an illegal alien on Earth. Your comment contributes nothing to the discussion.
Way to go with the 20 year old movie references, "Alone On A Friday Night With No Woman" Man, yet is totally not creimer.
It's too bad that your past bad behavior has make you so unpopular that no one makes any effort to try to understand what you are talking about, stranger who totally isn't Christopher D Reimer.
Why do you feel that your reference to an old movie that wasn't explained contributes anything in the first place? It's a movie. Not everyone has seen it. Not everyone is as old as you. People born when the movie came out and therefore probably didn't see it are now adults, Chris.
Have you stopped denying your Asperger's yet?
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You don't have much time left Chris. That body of yours might get you senior discounts 20 years early, but it's a ticking time bomb. Don't you want to make an effort and try to improve your squalid existence before you turn into 400 pounds of mulch?
You aren't making it to 100, Chris.
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As far as I can tell creimer has all the personality of wallpaper paste, but I can't even begin to imagine how boring your life must be to try to troll him.
And why would he go to prison? What laws has he broken?
I'm sorry to inform you that "I don't like him" and "he's a pee pee head" aren't good enough reasons, kid.
Do you also call the police "trolls"?
"swooosh", Chris?
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Yeah you Republitards set a real high water noose during Obamas eight years as NAGGER IN CHIEF.
Relish this. You made it happen.
The whole world knows you support pussygrabbing senile retards. Even Rupurt Murdoch called Trump a FUCKING MORON.
Relish it. The whole world is watching!
Why don't you go have a cry in the corner?
A random MiB reference wouldn't really add anything to the conversation. Imagine if in real life you went to some kind of social event and heard about NASA launching a mission to explore the border of Earth and Space, and in reply you made an OMG SO RANDOM reference to an old scifi action movie. You might get a polite chuckle, and then everybody would ignore you for the rest of the night as some kind of weird man-child without social skills.
Why would it be any more appreciated because we're online? Serious. All you contribute to Slashdot is a platform for asshats to hump your goat leg.
Creimer does look a bit pasty white in his new channel trailer on YouTube.
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