Magnetospheric Imaging — The Image Prime Mission

The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) is a NASA Explorer mission that is the first space mission dedicated to imaging of the Earth's magnetosphere. IMAGE was launched from Vandenberg AFB into an elliptical polar orbit by a Delta II launch vehicle on March 25, 2000. Th...

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Other Authors: Burch, James L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a The First Two Years of Image -- Extreme Ultraviolet Imager Observations of the Structure and Dynamics of the Plasmasphere -- Quantifying Global Plasmaspheric Images with in situ Observations -- Global Imaging of O+ from Image/HENA -- Global ENA Image Simulations -- Ring Current Energy Input and Decay -- Telescopic and Microscopic views of the Magnetosphere: Multispacecraft Observations -- The Role and Contributions of Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imaging in Magnetospheric Substorm Research -- An Overview of Results from RPI on Image -- Global Imaging of Proton and Electron Aurorae in the Far Ultraviolet -- Summary of Quantitative Interpretation of Image Far Ultraviolet Auroral Data -- Cusp Dynamics and Ionospheric Outflow -- Dayside Proton Aurora: Comparisons Between Global MHD Simulations and Image Observations -- Heliosphere-Geosphere Interactions Using Low Energy Neutral Atom Imaging 
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520 |a The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) is a NASA Explorer mission that is the first space mission dedicated to imaging of the Earth's magnetosphere. IMAGE was launched from Vandenberg AFB into an elliptical polar orbit by a Delta II launch vehicle on March 25, 2000. The two-year prime sci­ entific mission of IMAGE began on May 25, 2000 after instrument commissioning was successfully completed. IMAGE has now been approved for operation until October 1,2005, and an additional two-year extension is now being considered by NASA. The papers in this volume represent many of the scientific results obtained dur­ ing the IMAGE prime mission and include some of the early correlative research with ground-based measurements, measurements from other spacecraft such as Cluster II, and relevant theory and modeling programs. All of the reported work is related to the overall IMAGE science objective: How does the magnetosphere respond globally to the changing conditions in the solar wind? IMAGE addresses this question with multi-spectral imaging of most of the important plasma pop­ ulations of the inner magnetosphere, combined with radio sounding of gradients of total plasma content. The new experimental techniques fall into the following areas: neutral atom imaging (NAI) over an energy range from 10 eV to 500 keY for detection of ionospheric outflow, the plasma sheet, and the ring current; far ultraviolet (FUV) imaging at 121-190 nm for detection of precipitating protons and the global aurora; extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging at 30