{"id":619620,"date":"2023-03-19T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/nasas-aim-spacecraft-goes-silent-after-a-15-year-run-studying-the-earths-oldest-clouds\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:49:13","slug":"nasas-aim-spacecraft-goes-silent-after-a-15-year-run-studying-the-earths-oldest-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/nasas-aim-spacecraft-goes-silent-after-a-15-year-run-studying-the-earths-oldest-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s AIM spacecraft goes silent after a 15-year run studying the Earth\u2019s oldest clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After 15 years in space, NASA\u2019s AIM mission is ending. In a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/sunspot\/2023\/03\/16\/nasas-aim-mission-ends-operational-support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0\">brief blog post<\/a> spotted by <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nasa-aim-probe-retires-observing-clouds-edge-space-1850237831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0\"><em>Gizmodo<\/em><\/a>, the agency said Thursday it was ending operational support for the spacecraft due to a battery power failure. NASA first noticed issues with AIM\u2019s battery in 2019, but the probe was still sending a \u201csignificant amount of data\u201d back to Earth. Following another recent decline in battery power, NASA says AIM has become unresponsive. The AIM team will monitor the spacecraft for another two weeks in case it reboots, but judging from the tone of NASA\u2019s post, the agency isn\u2019t holding its breath.<\/p>\n<p>NASA launched the AIM \u2013 Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere \u2013 mission in 2007 to study <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noctilucent_cloud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0\">noctilucent or night-shining clouds<\/a>, which are sometimes known as fossilized clouds due to the fact they can last hundreds of years in the Earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere. From its vantage point 370 miles above the planet&#8217;s surface, the spacecraft proved invaluable to scientists, with data collected by AIM appearing in 379 peer-reviewed papers, including a recent <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/climate-change-responsible-these-rare-high-latitude-clouds-180969712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0\">2018 study<\/a> that found methane emissions from human-driven climate change are causing night-shining clouds to form more frequently. Pretty good for a mission NASA initially expected to operate for only two years. AIM\u2019s demise follows that of another long-serving NASA spacecraft. At the start of the year, the agency <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nasa-earth-radiation-budget-satellite-returning-to-earth-after-38-years-in-space-165244903.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0\">deorbited the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite<\/a> following a nearly four-decade run collecting ozone and atmospheric measurements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nasas-aim-spacecraft-goes-silent-after-a-15-year-run-studying-the-earths-oldest-clouds-162853411.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Igor Bonifacic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years in space, NASA\u2019s AIM mission is ending. In a brief blog post spotted by Gizmodo, the agency said Thursday it was ending operational support for the spacecraft due to a battery power failure. NASA first noticed issues with AIM\u2019s battery in 2019, but the probe was still sending a \u201csignificant amount of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4374,22920,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nasas","category-spacecraft","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}