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What will be the best outcome of the GOLD mission?

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The best outcome for the GOLD mission will be a comprehensive understanding

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of the thermosphere and ionosphere

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and how it responds to geomagnetic storms, plasma bubbles,

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and forcing from below like waves and tides

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and that’s what we really hope to get out of this.

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What can GOLD bring to the science community?

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GOLD is an unprecedented opportunity to look at the full disk of the Americas

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that we can look at the temperature and composition of the thermosphere and ionosphere

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and this will really help us study things like geomagnetic storms,

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plasma bubbles and the waves and tides that propagate from up from below.

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Why should we learn about the ionosphere and thermosphere?

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The ionosphere and thermosphere are part our near-space environment

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and this is the region where communication and navigation signals have to transit

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and when they do they can be impacted by different kinds of variability that happens there.

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And when there is variability you can get errors

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and so the idea is to be able to forecast this variability and mitigate those errors.

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What does GOLD do that has never been done before?

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What GOLD does that’s never been done before

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is take high resolution images of the full disk at a really high time frequency

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- every 30 minutes.

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So we’re going to be able to see the dramatic changes that happen on daily to hourly scales

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and that’s something we’ve never been able to do before.