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Plasmasphere

Target Name:  Earth's Aurora
Spacecraft:  IMAGE
Produced by:  NASA
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Date Released: 31 May 2000

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Depth sounding of the tenuous extension of the Earth's upper ionosphere about 20,000 kilometers into space around the Earth, called the plamasphere, using the Radio Plasma Imager instrument. The green traces correspond to echoes from the plasmasphere at varying depths.

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