The GOLD Mission Principal Investigator. (Photo: Courtesy: CU/LASP)
The GOLD instrument to be precise.
"I've dreamed about it for decades and I know a lot of other people have," said Richard Eastes, the GOLD Mission Principal Investigator.
GOLD stands for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk. It’s a $64-million project that will study the interaction of the Earth and Sun in a region known as the upper atmosphere – about 90 miles above us. It's a tricky place to operate in.