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Studies of the interplanetary magnetic field: imp's to voyager
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Ness, Norman F. |
| Copyright Year | 1987 |
| Description | During the last two decades, spacecraft projects and individual experiments for which Frank McDonald was a leader have contributed very significantly to the current understanding of the structure of interplanetary space and the correlation between solar and interplanetary disturbances. Studies on the IMP, HELIOS, and Pioneer spin-stabilized spacecraft and the larger attitude-stabilized Voyager spacecraft have provided data sets from which the modern view of the heliosphere has evolved. That concept in which the inner solar system is shown to be dominated by individual streams associated with specific source regions on the Sun is illustrated. As these high-speed streams overtake the preexisting solar plasma, they coalesce and modify the characteristics so that at larger heliocentric distances, these disturbances appear as radially propagating concentric shells of compressed magnetic fields and enhanced fluctuations |
| File Size | 4755580 |
| Page Count | 23 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870014820 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t53f9ng7h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1987-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Heliosphere Geometry Voyager 1 Spacecraft Explorer Satellites Current Sheets Neutral Sheets Pioneer 10 Space Probe Solar Wind Voyager 2 Spacecraft Cosmic Rays Interplanetary Magnetic Fields Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
