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  • ECE Prof leads $75 million NASA mission to investigate earth's atmosphere

    Dec 15, 2020 11:15 am by College of EngineeringResearch
    illustration of the GLIDE project beside a portrait of Lara Waldrop

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    • illustration of the GLIDE project beside a portrait of Lara Waldrop

    GLIDE will make unprecedented measurements of the far ultraviolet light emitted by hydrogen atoms in Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer (exosphere) more than 100,000 miles above Earth’s surface, or about halfway to the moon.