{"id":786262,"date":"2024-07-24T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786262"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:08:51","slug":"nasas-icon-mission-ends-with-several-ionospheric-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786262","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">The ICON spacecraft orbited in a part of our planet\u2019s outermost layer of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere, where it studied what events impact the ionosphere, including Earth\u2019s weather from below and space weather from above. The ionosphere is the lowest boundary of space, located between 55 miles to 360 miles above Earth\u2019s surface. It is made up of a sea of particles that have been ionized: a mix of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons called plasma.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/heliophysics\/nasas-icon-mission-ends-with-several-ionospheric-breakthroughs\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICON spacecraft orbited in a part of our planet\u2019s outermost layer of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere, where it studied what events impact the ionosphere, including Earth\u2019s weather from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}