Heliophysics Science Division

Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)

Class:

Instrument

Status:

Operational

Organizations:

Launch Date:

January 2018

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The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission of opportunity is an imaging instrument that is on a commercial communications satellite in geostationary orbit to image the Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere. GOLD was launched in January 2018.

      Concept image of Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument.