Predicting weather space
by David Hambling from on (#1C4YV)
A new satellite will explore how the weather "down here" in the troposphere affects the weather "up there" in the ionosphere, from 30 miles above ground to 600 miles. Everything above 100 miles is classed as space, so this includes most of the ionosphere.
The Ionospheric Connection Explorer or Icon is being built by UC Berkeley for Nasa to investigate the upward coupling effect, the mysterious way that storm systems affect conditions at much higher altitudes.
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