ICON Illustration (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

ICON Illustration

Caption

Charged particles in Earth's atmosphere, which make up the ionosphere, create bands of color above Earth's surface, known as airglow. ICON, depicted in this artist's concept, will study the ionosphere from a height of about 350 miles to understand how the combined effects of terrestrial weather and space weather influence this ionized layer of particles.

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NASA Goddard's Conceptual Image Lab/B. Monroe

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