Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere

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By BeauHDAug 14, 2026, 3:00 am183 ptsTrendingTop
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed changes in atmospheric density about 500 kilometers above…

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