Geocorona

 ( Atmosphere Of Earth ) 

The geocorona is the luminous part of the outermost region of the Earth's atmosphere, the exosphere. It is seen primarily via ultraviolet light (Lyman series) from the Sun that is Scattering from neutral hydrogen. It extends to at minimum 15.5 Earth radii and probably up to about 100 Earth radii (for context, the Moon is approx. 60 Earth radii away). The geocorona has been studied from outer space by the Astrid satellites and the Galileo spacecraft (among others), using its ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS) during an Earth Planetary flyby.

• Stellar corona
• Atmosphere of Earth
• Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, a NASA mission to study geocorona

• Geocorona at Southwest Research Institute