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I'm Sarah Jones from NASA's Goddard space flight center. I work as a research scientist in the Helio science division.

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Space-weather is a type of phenomenon that is similar to the Earth weather that we experience down here below, hurricanes

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and thunderstorms. And in space, we also get storms storms coming from the Sun what happens on the Sun then affects space

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around it including the space right around our Earth's atmosphere where we can have changes in temperature pressure fronts

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and changes in wind velocity.

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The Ionospheric Connection Explorer or the ICON mission

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launches on the evening of October 9th from Florida

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and it will

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take pictures of the Earth's atmosphere in this glow that comes from the atmosphere which is called air glow and measuring

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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

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it can affect signals that come from our satellites like our GPS satellites, which can then have effects on our

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technologies here on the ground and on our daily lives.