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IMAGE: Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration. Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Colloquium • February 23, 2001. The geospace environment as viewed from space. pre-1981. 1981 (DE-1/SAI). 2000 (IMAGE/EUV). B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator.
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IMAGE: Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Colloquium • February 23, 2001
The geospace environment as viewed from space pre-1981 1981 (DE-1/SAI) 2000 (IMAGE/EUV)
B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
Charge Exchange A magnetically trapped ion captures an electron from a neutral hydrogen atom... …creating an energetic neutral atom (ENA) that is no longer trapped.
Radio Plasma Imaging Radio Plasma Imaging
High-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager Lead Investigator: D. Mitchell, Applied Physics Lab B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
Medium-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager Lead Investigator: C. Pollock, SwRI B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
Low-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager Lead Investigator: T. Moore, NASA/GSFC B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) Imager Lead Investigator: B. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
Far-Ultraviolet (EUV) Imager Lead Investigator: S. Mende, UC Berkeley B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona Lead Investigator
The IMAGE Science Payload HENA APL MENA, CIDP SwRI LENA GSFC EUV Univ. of Arizona FUV UC Berkeley RPI U. Mass/Lowell
IMAGE Spacecraft in LMMS Shock Test Facility
Auroral proton and electron precipitation patterns proton aurora electron aurora proton + electron aurora
Proton precipitation patterns: Cusp & plasma tail footprint 24 June 2000 ~0200 UT
Plasmaspheric tail 11 August 2000
Flux Tube 20 August 2000
Plasmasphere features 24 May 2000
Plasmaspheric features: Trough, shoulder, tail 24 May 2000
Comparison of EUV data with Rice Univ. Magnetospheric Specification Model
IMF Control ofEpenetration 4:45 UT North 5:00 UT North 6:00 UT Weak North 7:30 UT South
The “Bastille Day” Magnetic Storm
HENA Ring Current Images 16 - 27 keV 39 - 60 keV
IMAGE Science and Mission Operations Center (SMOC) IMAGE Data Delivery System: http://150.144.211.77/image/image_main.html