Geocorona
The geocorona is the luminous part of the outermost region of the Earth's atmosphere, the exosphere. It is seen primarily via far-ultraviolet light (Lyman-alpha) from the Sun that is scattered from neutral hydrogen.[1] It extends to at minimum 15.5 Earth radii and probably up to about 100 Earth radii (for context, the Moon is approx. 60 Earth radii away).[2] The geocorona has been studied from outer space by the Astrid satellites and the Galileo spacecraft (among others), using its ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS) during an Earth flyby.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kameda, S.; Ikezawa, S.; Sato, M.; Kuwabara, M.; Osada, N.; Murakami, G.; Yoshioka, K.; Yoshikawa, I.; Taguchi, M.; Funase, R.; Sugita, S.; Miyoshi, Y.; Fujimoto, M. (16 December 2017). "Ecliptic North-South Symmetry of Hydrogen Geocorona". Geophysical Research Letters. 44 (23): 11, 706–11, 712. Bibcode:2017GeoRL..4411706K. doi:10.1002/2017GL075915.
- ^ Baliukin, I. I.; Bertaux, J.-L.; Quémerais, E.; Izmodenov, V. V.; Schmidt, W. (15 February 2019). "SWAN/SOHO Lyman-α mapping: the Hydrogen Geocorona Extends Well Beyond The Moon" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 124 (2): 861–885. Bibcode:2019JGRA..124..861B. doi:10.1029/2018JA026136. S2CID 135304690.
External links
[edit]- Geocorona at Southwest Research Institute Archived 2019-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
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