I'm Sarah Jones from NASA's Goddard space flight center. I work as a research scientist in the Helio science division.
Space-weather is a type of phenomenon that is similar to the Earth weather that we experience down here below, hurricanes
and thunderstorms. And in space, we also get storms storms coming from the Sun what happens on the Sun then affects space
around it including the space right around our Earth's atmosphere where we can have changes in temperature pressure fronts
and changes in wind velocity.
The Ionospheric Connection Explorer or the ICON mission
launches on the evening of October 9th from Florida
and it will
take pictures of the Earth's atmosphere in this glow that comes from the atmosphere which is called air glow and measuring
that can tell us things about the weather up in space. But we care of course about what's going on around the earth because
it can affect signals that come from our satellites like our GPS satellites, which can then have effects on our
technologies here on the ground and on our daily lives.