{
"id": 4607,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4607/",
"page_type": "Visualization",
"title": "GOLD in Geostationary Orbit",
"description": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere. || IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_print.jpg (1024x576) [43.8 KB] || IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.0 KB] || IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_thm.png (80x40) [2.3 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [22.4 MB] || IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [8.5 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [90.1 MB] || IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [199 bytes] || ",
"release_date": "2018-01-04T10:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2025-01-06T00:12:24.935742-05:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 408091,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_print.jpg",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
},
"main_video": null,
"main_credits": {
"Visualizations by": [
{
"name": "Tom Bridgman",
"employer": "Global Science and Technology, Inc."
}
]
},
"progress": "Complete",
"media_groups": [
{
"id": 328100,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4607/#media_group_328100",
"widget": "Video player",
"title": "",
"caption": "",
"description": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"items": [
{
"id": 252465,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408091,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_print.jpg",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
}
},
{
"id": 252466,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408092,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_searchweb.png",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_searchweb.png",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 320,
"height": 180,
"pixels": 57600
}
},
{
"id": 252467,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408093,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_thm.png",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_.noslate_CRTT.HD1080i.000450_thm.png",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 80,
"height": 40,
"pixels": 3200
}
},
{
"id": 252464,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408090,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/frames/1920x1080_16x9_30p/",
"filename": "1920x1080_16x9_30p",
"media_type": "Frames",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080,
"pixels": 2073600
}
},
{
"id": 252468,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408094,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4",
"media_type": "Movie",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080,
"pixels": 2073600
}
},
{
"id": 252471,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408097,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.webm",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.webm",
"media_type": "Movie",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080,
"pixels": 2073600
}
},
{
"id": 252469,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408095,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/frames/3840x2160_16x9_30p/",
"filename": "3840x2160_16x9_30p",
"media_type": "Frames",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 3840,
"height": 2160,
"pixels": 8294400
}
},
{
"id": 252470,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 408096,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4",
"media_type": "Movie",
"alt_text": "The GOLD instrument orbits Earth in a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere.",
"width": 3840,
"height": 2160,
"pixels": 8294400
}
},
{
"id": 438643,
"type": "media",
"extra_data": null,
"title": null,
"caption": null,
"instance": {
"id": 1100348,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004607/IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow",
"filename": "IRIDaily.oblique_GOLD.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow",
"media_type": "HyperwallShow",
"alt_text": "",
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"pixels": null
}
}
],
"extra_data": {}
},
{
"id": 328099,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4607/#media_group_328099",
"widget": "Basic text with HTML",
"title": "",
"caption": "",
"description": "The GOLD instrument will be riding as a passenger instrument onboard a commercial communications satellite positioned in geostationary orbit.
GOLD will scan the disk and limb of Earth with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph to measure the response of Earth's ionosphere to the various forcings in the Sun-Earth system.",
"items": [],
"extra_data": {}
}
],
"studio": "svs",
"funding_sources": [
"NASA Heliophysics"
],
"credits": [
{
"role": "Visualizer",
"people": [
{
"name": "Tom Bridgman",
"employer": "Global Science and Technology, Inc."
}
]
},
{
"role": "Scientist",
"people": [
{
"name": "Sarah L. Jones",
"employer": "NASA/GSFC"
}
]
},
{
"role": "Producer",
"people": [
{
"name": "Genna Duberstein",
"employer": "USRA"
},
{
"name": "Joy Ng",
"employer": "USRA"
}
]
},
{
"role": "Writer",
"people": [
{
"name": "Kathalina Tran",
"employer": "SGT"
}
]
},
{
"role": "Technical support",
"people": [
{
"name": "Laurence Schuler",
"employer": "ADNET Systems, Inc."
},
{
"name": "Ian Jones",
"employer": "ADNET Systems, Inc."
}
]
}
],
"missions": [
"Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)"
],
"series": [
"Interface to Space"
],
"tapes": [],
"papers": [],
"datasets": [],
"nasa_science_categories": [
"Earth",
"Sun"
],
"keywords": [
"Geosynchronous",
"Hyperwall",
"Ionosphere",
"Location",
"Orbit"
],
"recommended_pages": [],
"related": [
{
"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": 12825,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12825/",
"page_type": "Infographic",
"title": "GOLD Resources",
"description": "The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD explores in unprecedented detail our space environment — which is home to astronauts, radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, as well as satellites that provide communications and GPS systems. The more we know about the fundamental physics of this region of space, the more we can protect our assets there.Gathering observations from geostationary orbit above the Western Hemisphere, GOLD measures the temperature and composition of neutral gases in Earth’s thermosphere. This part of the atmosphere co-mingles with the ionosphere, which is made up of charged particles. Both the Sun from above and terrestrial weather from below can change the types, numbers, and characteristics of the particles found here — and GOLD helps track those changes.Activity in this region is responsible for a variety of key space weather events. GOLD scientists are particularly interested in the cause of dense, unpredictable bubbles of charged gas that appear over the equator and tropics, sometimes causing communication problems. As we discover the very nature of the Sun-Earth interaction in this region, the mission could ultimately lead to ways to improve forecasts of such space weather and mitigate its effects. || ",
"release_date": "2018-01-24T12:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2023-05-03T13:47:01.592504-04:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 407822,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012825/ElsayedTalaat.00001_print.jpg",
"filename": "ElsayedTalaat.00001_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "Canned interview with NASA Scientist Elsayed Talaat looking off camera. Soundbites are separated by slates. Full title: Elsayed Talaat, Heliophysics Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington Complete transcript available.",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
}
},
{
"id": 4610,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4610/",
"page_type": "Visualization",
"title": "GOLD: Instrument Scanning Coverage",
"description": "Visualization of GOLD orbiting Earth with image scanning. This version presents the singly-ionized oxygen density from the IRI model. || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_Oion.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.001400_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.3 KB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_Oion.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.001400_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.2 KB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_Oion.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.001400_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview4_Oion.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [38.5 MB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview4_Oion.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview4_Oion.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [204 bytes] || ",
"release_date": "2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2025-03-10T00:07:13.312177-04:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 407532,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004610/IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_Oion.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.001400_print.jpg",
"filename": "IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_Oion.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.001400_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "Visualization of GOLD orbiting Earth with image scanning. This version presents the singly-ionized oxygen density from the IRI model.",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
}
},
{
"id": 4527,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4527/",
"page_type": "Visualization",
"title": "ICON and GOLD: Instrument Scanning Coverage",
"description": "Visualization of ICON and GOLD orbiting Earth with image scanning. This version presents several geospace models, including the singly-ionized oxygen density, the low-latitude geomagnetic field, and the high-altitude winds (100km and 350km altitudes). || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.001140_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.5 KB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.001140_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.0 KB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.001140_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [82.0 MB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [7.6 MB] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [258.1 MB] || ",
"release_date": "2016-12-14T14:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2025-03-09T22:29:33.296980-04:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 420103,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004527/IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.001140_print.jpg",
"filename": "IRIGOLDscan.GOLDview3_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.UHD3840.001140_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "Visualization of ICON and GOLD orbiting Earth with image scanning. This version presents several geospace models, including the singly-ionized oxygen density, the low-latitude geomagnetic field, and the high-altitude winds (100km and 350km altitudes).",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
}
}
],
"sources": [],
"products": [
{
"id": 12823,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12823/",
"page_type": "Produced Video",
"title": "Where Earth Meets Space",
"description": "NASA’s newest mission, GOLD, will explore the ever-changing boundary between Earth and space. || 12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print.png (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || 12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [122.0 KB] || 12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print_print.jpg (1024x576) [133.7 KB] || 12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.5 KB] || 12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || ",
"release_date": "2018-02-05T12:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2023-05-03T13:46:59.488048-04:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 406915,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012823/12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print.png",
"filename": "12827_GOLD_SES14satellite.00300_print.png",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "NASA’s newest mission, GOLD, will explore the ever-changing boundary between Earth and space.",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080,
"pixels": 2073600
}
},
{
"id": 12817,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12817/",
"page_type": "Produced Video",
"title": "Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet",
"description": "The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD and another NASA mission, Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft, or ICON, will provide the most comprehensive of Earth’s upper atmosphere we’ve ever had.Above the ozone layer, the ionosphere is a part of Earth’s atmosphere where particles have been cooked into a sea of electrically-charged electrons and ions by the Sun’s radiation. The ionosphere is co-mingled with the very highest — and quite thin — layers of Earth’s neutral upper atmosphere, making this region an area that is constantly in flux undergoing the push-and-pull between Earth’s conditions and those in space. Increasingly, these layers of near-Earth space are part of the human domain, as it’s home not only to astronauts, but to radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, and satellites that provide our communications and GPS systems. Understanding the fundamental processes that govern our upper atmosphere and ionosphere is crucial to improve situational awareness that helps protect astronauts, spacecraft and humans on the ground.GOLD, in geostationary orbit over the Western Hemisphere, will build up a full-disk view of the ionosphere and upper atmosphere every half hour, providing detailed large-scale measurements of related processes — a cadence which makes it the first mission to be able to monitor the true weather of the upper atmosphere. GOLD is also able to focus in on a tighter region and scan more quickly, to complement additional research plans as needed. || ",
"release_date": "2018-01-05T13:00:00-05:00",
"update_date": "2023-05-03T13:47:03.970975-04:00",
"main_image": {
"id": 407989,
"url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012817/GOLDOverview_YouTube.00001_print.jpg",
"filename": "GOLDOverview_YouTube.00001_print.jpg",
"media_type": "Image",
"alt_text": "Complete transcript available.Music credits: 'Faint Glimmer' by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], 'Ocean Spirals' by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS] from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"pixels": 589824
}
}
],
"newer_versions": [],
"older_versions": [],
"alternate_versions": []
}