AGU research spotlight on cosmic dust

A scientific paper by Chester Gardner, Alan Liu, ACD Scientist Dan Marsh, Wuhu Feng, and J. M. C. Plane has been selected by the American Geophysical Union as an "AGU Research Spotlight." Inferring the global cosmic dust in flux to the Earth’s atmosphere from lidar observations of the vertical flux of mesospheric Na (2014) was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. The research studied the meteoric debris that enters the Earth's atmosphere and is eventually transported to the surface.



 

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Image of sunlight scattered by cosmic dust, courtesy of ESO/Y. Beletky