{
  "id": 848312,
  "title": "Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/scientists-turn-starlink-into-a-giant-scanner-for-earths-upper",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-14T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/0230250/scientists-turn-starlink-into-a-giant-scanner-for-earths-upper-atmosphere"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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 Earth. [...] The resulting density patterns also showed strong consistency with…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}