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- The Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics, and Dynmaics
(TIMED) mission is studying the influences of the Sun and humans on
the least explored and understood region of Earth's atmosphere. TIMED
is focusing on a portion of this atmospheric region located
approximately 40-110 miles above the surface. The TIMED spacecraft was
launched on Dec 7, 2001.
Website: http://www.timed.jhuapl.edu/WWW/index.php
[Summary provided by John Hopkins University.]
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