Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) [6] was a NASA satellite designed to investigate changes in the ionosphere of Earth, the dynamic region high in the atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather from above.

2024年12月2日 · ICON aimed its instruments for a view of what's happening at the lowest boundary of space at about 55 miles up to 360 miles. ICON carried four instruments to collect images of the ionosphere and to directly measure characteristics of the space environment through which it flew.

2014年9月22日 · ICON is the first space mission to simultaneously retrieve all of the properties of the system that both influence and result from the dynamical and chemical coupling of the atmosphere and ionosphere. ICON achieves this through an innovative measurement technique that combines remote optical imaging and in situ measurements of the plasma.

The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), the newest addition to NASA’s fleet of Heliophysics satellites, launched on October 10, 2019 at 9:59 p.m. EDT. Led by UC Berkeley, scientists and engineers around the world came together to make ICON a reality.

This product contains the density and velocity of the plasma measured at the location of the ICON satellite. It is retrieved from the two velocity measurements by the IVM instrument, a ram velocity from the RPA and a cross-track velocity from the IDM.

ICON’s three airglow instruments view airglow from miles away to measure the temperature, velocity, and composition of Earth’s atmospheric gases. ICON’s fourth instrument type provides direct measurements of the ionosphere around

2018年3月27日 · The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a low-Earth orbiting satellite that will give us new information about how Earth’s atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space — a give-and-take that plays a major role in the safety of our satellites and reliability of communications signals.Specifically, ICON investigates the connections ...

2015年3月13日 · The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a 2-year mission that will give us incredible new views of the boundary between our atmosphere and space, where planetary weather and space weather meet.

2018年5月24日 · The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a low-Earth orbiting satellite that will give us new information about how Earth’s atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space — a give-and-take that plays a major role in the safety of our satellites and reliability of communications signals.

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