Clemson professor part of a space research team

A Clemson University professor, Jens Oberheide, is part of a team of researchers receiving a $2 million award from NASA for a concept study of a proposed mission investigating the connection between space weather and the Earth’s atmosphere.  Clemson’s Oberheide is a co-investigator in the proposal spearheaded by the University of Colorado Boulder, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the MIT Haystack Observatory.  Their mission to design and build a satellite with science payloads to explore gaps in our understanding of how changes in the lower atmosphere influence the upper atmosphere and low Earth orbit.