{"id":3922052,"date":"2025-09-19T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-nasa-mission-to-reveal-earths-invisible-halo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:05:39","slug":"new-nasa-mission-to-reveal-earths-invisible-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-nasa-mission-to-reveal-earths-invisible-halo\/","title":{"rendered":"New NASA mission to reveal  Earth&#8217;s invisible &#8216;halo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth&#8217;s invisible &#8220;halo,&#8221; the faint light given off by our planet&#8217;s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement for protecting Artemis astronauts traveling through the region on the way to the moon or on future trips to Mars. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-nasa-mission-reveal-earth-invisible.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth&#8217;s invisible &#8220;halo,&#8221; the faint light given off by our planet&#8217;s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement for protecting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}