{"id":227669,"date":"2025-12-23T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-new-mission-will-expose-earths-invisible-halo"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:25:18","slug":"nasas-new-mission-will-expose-earths-invisible-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-new-mission-will-expose-earths-invisible-halo","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Mission Will Expose Earth\u2019s Invisible \u201cHalo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TiK6uaE8CkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/carruthers-geocorona-observatory\/\">NASA\u2019s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory<\/a>, named in honor of George Carruthers, is designed to capture the first continuous movies of Earth\u2019s exosphere, revealing its full expanse and internal dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had a mission before that was dedicated to making exospheric observations,\u201d said Alex Glocer, the Carruthers mission scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cIt\u2019s really exciting that we\u2019re going to get these measurements for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}