# Presentation: 661884

## IMAGE: Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora

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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

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**The geospace environment as**
**viewed from space**

**pre-1981**

**1981 (DE-1/SAI)**

**2000 (IMAGE/EUV)**

## Slide 3

## B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona

**Lead Investigator**

## Charge Exchange

**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.

## UV Detection Techniques 

**UV Detection Techniques **

## Radio Plasma Imaging 

**Radio Plasma Imaging**** **

## ENA Detection Techniques 

**ENA Detection Techniques **

## UV Detection Techniques 

## High-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager

**Lead Investigator**

**High-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager**

**Lead Investigator: D. Mitchell, Applied Physics Lab**

## Medium-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager

**Lead Investigator**

**Medium-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager**

**Lead Investigator: C. Pollock, SwRI**

## Low-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager

**Lead Investigator**

**Low-Energy Neutral Atom (HENA) Imager**

**Lead Investigator: T. Moore, NASA/GSFC**

## Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) Imager

**B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona**
**Lead Investigator**

**Lead Investigator: B. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona**

## Far-Ultraviolet (EUV) Imager

**B. R. Sandel, Univ. of Arizona**
**Lead Investigator**

**Lead Investigator: S. Mende, UC Berkeley**

## The IMAGE Science Payload

**MENA, CIDP**
***SwRI***

**LENA**
***GSFC***

**HENA**
***APL***

**EUV**
***Univ. of Arizona***

**FUV**
***UC Berkeley***

**RPI**
***U. Mass/Lowell***

**The IMAGE Science Payload**

## IMAGE Spacecraft

- in LMMS Shock Test Facility

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## “Bastille Day” Aurora

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**“****Bastille Day” Aurora**

## proton aurora

- electron aurora

- proton + electron
- aurora

**Auroral proton and electron**
**precipitation patterns**

## Proton precipitation patterns:

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**Proton precipitation patterns:**
**Cusp & plasma tail footprint**

**24 June 2000**
**~0200 UT**

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## Plasmaspheric tail

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**Plasmaspheric tail**

**11 August 2000**

## Flux Tube

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**Flux Tube**

**20 August 2000**

## Isolated Flux Tube

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**Isolated Flux Tube**

## Plasmasphere features

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**Plasmasphere features**

**24 May 2000**

## Plasmaspheric features:

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**Plasmaspheric features:**
**Trough, shoulder, tail**

**24 May 2000**

## Comparison of EUV data with Rice Univ. Magnetospheric Specification Model

**Comparison of EUV data with Rice Univ. Magnetospheric Specification Model**

## IMF Control of Epenetration

**4:45 UT**
** ****North**

**5:00 UT**
**North**

**6:00 UT**
**Weak North**

**7:30 UT**
**South**** **

**IMF Control of** ***E*****penetration**

## The “Bastille Day”

**The “Bastille Day”**
**Magnetic Storm**

## HENA Ring Current Images

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**HENA Ring Current Images**

## HENA Ring Current Images

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**16 - 27 keV**

**39 - 60 keV**

**HENA Ring Current Images**

## HENA (39-60 keV) and EUV

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**HENA (39-60 keV) and EUV**

## FUV-WIC images from substorm on June 10, 2000

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## ENA Flux vs. Deconvolved Ions

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**ENA Flux vs. Deconvolved Ions**

## LENA Solar Wind Neutrals + Polar Ion Outflow

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**LENA Solar Wind Neutrals + Polar Ion Outflow**

## LENA Solar Wind Neutrals

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**LENA Solar Wind Neutrals**

## LENA Interstellar Neutrals

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**LENA Interstellar Neutrals**

## LENA Interstellar Neutrals

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**LENA Interstellar Neutrals**

## RPI: Ducted Echoes

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**RPI: Ducted Echoes**

## IMAGE Science and Mission Operations Center (SMOC)

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**IMAGE Science and Mission Operations Center (SMOC)**

**http://150.144.211.77/image/image_main.html**

**IMAGE Data Delivery System:**