Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
GOLD Instrument
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- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- LASP
Description
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, which images Earth’s disk every half hour to map temperature and composition in the sunlit thermosphere and electron density in the nighttime ionosphere, tracking space weather effects.
Official page
https://lasp.colorado.edu/instruments/gold-instrument/
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Details
- Keywords
- thermosphere temperature and composition, nighttime ionosphere electron density, space weather events, imaging spectrograph, full-disk imaging
- Location
- In space
- Measurement band
- Ultraviolet
- Instrument platform
- GOLD mission
- Associated entity
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics