Exploring the Earth’s outer atmosphere: an innovative approach to measure in-situ exospheric densities

Hyunju KIM Connor1, Sarah Jones2, Lauren Blum3, Nikolaos Paschalidis4, Denise Thorsen1 and Craig J Pollock5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC-Heliophysics Sci, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States