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Engineers transform smartphones into instruments for studying space

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Researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones into scientific instruments.

They created one of the most detailed maps to date of the uppermost layer of Earth 's atmosphere.

The study puts new focus on the ionosphere, a wispy layer of the atmosphere that stretches 350 miles above Earth 's surface.

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