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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 Related Document IMAGE Spacecraft Takes First Pictures of Electrified Gas Surrounding Earth Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size plasmagram.jpg JPEG 515 x 332 46K plasmagram.tif TIFF 515 x 332 253K 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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