Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI)

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US Naval Research Laboratory's Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) payload launched on NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission to study the effects of terrestrial weather and solar influences on the Earth's ionosphere from a height of about 350 miles.

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