{ "id": 40056, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/ionosphere/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Ionosphere", "description": "No description available.", "release_date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2022-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 500789, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010342/IONOSPHERE0001_web.png", "filename": "IONOSPHERE0001_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Ionosphere changes animation", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 }, "media_groups": [ { "id": 370506, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/ionosphere/#media_group_370506", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Visuals", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 403044, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10342/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Ionosphere and CINDI", "description": "The Coupled Ion Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) is a joint NASA/Air Force funded Ionospheric plasma sensor. This animation shows how the ionosphere changes between Daytime and nighttime. || ", "release_date": "2008-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:00.484202-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 500794, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010342/IONOSPHERE000100102_print.jpg", "filename": "IONOSPHERE000100102_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Ionosphere changes animation", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 403045, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10208, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10208/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "4D Ionosphere", "description": "NASA-funded researchers have unveiled a new '4D' live model of Earth's ionosphere at the Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer of ionized gases that encircles Earth at edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet. Airline flight controllers can use this tool to plan long-distance flights over the poles, saving money and time for flyers. || ", "release_date": "2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:25.183629-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 505531, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010200/a010208/Ionoshpere_WebShort_320x24001952_print.jpg", "filename": "Ionoshpere_WebShort_320x24001952_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Introduction to the '4D Ionosphere' tool, Communication Alert and Prediction System.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 768, "pixels": 786432 } } }, { "id": 403046, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4929, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4929/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Comparing Atomic Oxygen Emission Observed by GOLD with Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC)", "description": "At 23:00UTC on November 19, 2018, we see the maxima of TEC values (red dots) closely aligned with the maxima of OI 135.6nm emission (black dots) || GOLD_TEC_anomalies_inset.00034_print.jpg (1024x576) [121.4 KB] || ", "release_date": "2021-08-30T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:43:58.035352-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 377361, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004900/a004929/GOLD_TEC_anomalies_inset.00034_print.jpg", "filename": "GOLD_TEC_anomalies_inset.00034_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "At 23:00UTC on November 19, 2018, we see the maxima of TEC values (red dots) closely aligned with the maxima of OI 135.6nm emission (black dots)", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 403047, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4737/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Observing Earth's Ionosphere with GOLD", "description": "A visualization of GOLD data observing Earth's ionosphere in ultraviolet light around the wavelength of an atomic oxygen emission. || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.000267_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.4 KB] || GOLD_March2019_animated.gif (1042x586) [5.5 MB] || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.000267_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.3 KB] || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.000267_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.HD1080i_p10.mp4 (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || basic (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.HD1080i_p10.webm (1920x1080) [3.1 MB] || basic (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S_2160p10.mp4 (3840x2160) [72.0 MB] || ", "release_date": "2019-07-17T11:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:45:48.784399-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 394748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004700/a004737/GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.000267_print.jpg", "filename": "GOLDData201903.GOLDview_O5S.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.000267_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A visualization of GOLD data observing Earth's ionosphere in ultraviolet light around the wavelength of an atomic oxygen emission.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 403048, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4683/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "NASA Scientists see Gravity Waves in Concentric Rings", "description": "NASA scientists have tracked gravity waves traveling thousands of miles across our atmosphere in concentric rings. Large storms can create these waves, which grow and spread upward hundreds of miles above Earth's surface. The AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite detected gravity waves in the troposphere and stratosphere 12 hours before a deadly EF5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013. On the instrument's next pass 11 hours later, it detected even stronger waves.We pull up 250 miles to the ionosphere, where the waves can be observed by GPS satellites. Here gravity waves are shown in greens and yellows, like ripples in a pond. The waves and tornado were both produced by a long-lived storm system.Understanding the spread of gravity waves improves global weather forecasting and space weather forecasting.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.1 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.9 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_thm.png (80x40) [8.3 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740.tif (1920x1080) [3.2 MB] || GravityWavesMooreOK-SameWordsDifferentOrder.webm (1920x1080) [7.4 MB] || GWfacebook-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio.mp4 (1920x1080) [76.1 MB] || GravityWavesMooreOK-SameWordsDifferentOrder.mp4 (1920x1080) [117.1 MB] || composite (3849x2160) [0 Item(s)] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.mp4 (3840x2160) [240.0 MB] || GWfacebook-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio.mp4.hwshow [199 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2018-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:13:29.950454-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 400206, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004683/GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_print.jpg", "filename": "GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA scientists have tracked gravity waves traveling thousands of miles across our atmosphere in concentric rings. Large storms can create these waves, which grow and spread upward hundreds of miles above Earth's surface. \rThe AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite detected gravity waves in the troposphere and stratosphere 12 hours before a deadly EF5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013. On the instrument's next pass 11 hours later, it detected even stronger waves.\r\rWe pull up 250 miles to the ionosphere, where the waves can be observed by GPS satellites. Here gravity waves are shown in greens and yellows, like ripples in a pond. \r The waves and tornado were both produced by a long-lived storm system.\rUnderstanding the spread of gravity waves improves global weather forecasting and space weather forecasting.\rComplete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 403049, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4594, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4594/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "ICON Scans the Ionosphere", "description": "ICON orbits Earth at 575 kilometers altitude, measuring the composition and motions of the ionosphere. || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.7 KB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.8 KB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [76.4 MB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [10.9 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [217.4 MB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [210 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2017-10-31T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-03-10T00:07:07.530395-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 410018, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004594/IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_print.jpg", "filename": "IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "ICON orbits Earth at 575 kilometers altitude, measuring the composition and motions of the ionosphere.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 403050, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12960/", "page_type": "Infographic", "title": "Ionosphere Graphics", "description": "Stretching from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface, the ionosphere is an electrified layer of the upper atmosphere, generated by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. It’s neither fully Earth nor space, and instead, reacts to both terrestrial weather below and solar energy streaming in from above, forming a complex space weather system of its own. The particles of the ionosphere carry electrical charge that can disrupt communications signals, cause satellites in low-Earth orbit to become electrically charged, and, in extreme cases, cause power outages on the ground. Positioned on the edge of space and intermingled with the neutral atmosphere, the ionosphere’s response to conditions on Earth and in space is difficult to pin down. || ", "release_date": "2018-05-31T19:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:46:44.552542-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 403890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012900/a012960/Airglow_Layers.jpg", "filename": "Airglow_Layers.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Stretching from roughly 50 to 400 miles above the surface, this region, called the ionosphere, is an electrified layer of the upper atmosphere, generated by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. Understanding the ionosphere’s extreme variability is tricky because it requires detangling interactions between the different factors at play — interactions of which we don’t have a clear picture. That’s where airglow comes in. Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light in order to shed their excess energy. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is sparked by day-to-day solar radiation. Airglow carries information on the upper atmosphere’s temperature, density, and composition, but it also helps us trace how particles move through the region itself. Vast, high-altitude winds sweep through the ionosphere, pushing its contents around the globe — and airglow’s subtle dance follows their lead, highlighting global patterns. 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Processes in the ionosphere also create bright swaths of color in the sky, known as airglow. Credit: NASA GSFC || AGUIonosphereV4_1.jpg (1280x960) [109.7 KB] || ", "release_date": "2016-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:48:04.120770-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 417708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012400/a012457/EarthBreatheV3.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "EarthBreatheV3.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "During a geomagnetic storm, Earth’s upper atmosphere can expand and contract depending on conditions in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.Credit: NASA GSFC", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }