Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes - Goals

Goals

The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes mission has two goals:

  1. Determine the effects of solar variability on the global-scale behavior of ionospheric electron density
  2. Determine the solar and geospace causes of small scale ionospheric irregularities

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