The region also plays a role in the gradual loss of hydrogen, a key component of water, or H2O. Tracking how hydrogen escapes from Earth may help explain why our planet has managed to hold onto its water while others have not, offering valuable clues in the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, named in honor of George Carruthers, is designed to capture the first continuous movies of Earth’s exosphere, revealing its full expanse and internal dynamics.
“We’ve never had a mission before that was dedicated to making exospheric observations,” said Alex Glocer, the Carruthers mission scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s really exciting that we’re going to get these measurements for the first time.”
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