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Geotail mca plasma wave investigation data analysis (Document No: 19960047292)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Anderson, Roger R. |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Description | The goals of this program include identifying, studying, and understanding the source, movement, and dissipation of plasma mass, momentum, and energy between the Sun and Earth. The GEOTAIL spacecraft was built by the Japanese Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science and has provided extensive measurements of entry, storage, acceleration, and transport in the geomagnetic tail. Due to the GEOTAIL trajectory, which kept the spacecraft passing into the deep tail, GEOTAIL also made 'magnetopause skimming passes' which allowed measurements in the outer magnetosphere, magnetopause, bow shock, and upstream solar wind regions as well as in the lobe, magnetosheath, boundary layers, and central plasma sheet regions of the tail. In late 1994, after spending nearly 30 months primarily traversing the deep tail region, GEOTAIL began its near Earth phase where apogee was reduced first to about 50 Re and later to 30 Re and perigee was decreased to about 10 Re. The WIND spacecraft was launched on November 1, 1994, and the POLAR spacecraft was launched on February 24, 1996. These successful launches have dramatically increased the opportunities for GEOTAIL and the GGS spacecraft to conduct global research. |
| File Size | 1483295 |
| Page Count | 23 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19960047292 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t87h6hv1h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1996-08-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Plasma Layers Geomagnetic Tail Bow Waves Magnetosheath Magnetopause Solar Terrestrial Interactions Space Plasmas Shock Waves Kinetic Energy Solar Wind Energy Transfer Plasma Heating Boundary Layers Plasma Waves Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
