The Solar Wind Spectrometer was a scientific package that flew on the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 missions to the surface of the Moon. The goal was to characterise...
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The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons...
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Advanced Composition Explorer (section Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) and Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer (SWIMS))
as the spacecraft spins. The Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) and the Solar Wind Ions Mass Spectrometer (SWIMS) on ACE are instruments...
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the solar wind streams. UltraViolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS), which measures density and temperature in the corona. Variability of solar IRradiance...
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conduct measurements of the Sun's solar wind particles. Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the low energy spectrometer, contains two analysers, each designed...
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investigation, the Solar Wind Experiment (SWE), a Three-Dimensional Plasma and Energetic Particle Investigation (3DP), the Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS)...
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wind or plasma fountain is a permanent outflow of plasma from the polar regions of Earth's magnetosphere, caused by the interaction between the solar...
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(NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solar wind, will also perform close...
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Geomagnetic storm (redirect from Geomagnetic solar storm)
Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave. The disturbance that drives the magnetic storm may be a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or (much...
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spectrometer to measure scattered and emitted UV light a neutral mass spectrometer to determine the composition of the upper atmosphere a solar wind plasma...
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and the Solar Wind Spectrometer, to measure the strength and direction of the solar wind at the Moon's surface—the free-standing Solar Wind Composition...
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The goal of SIDE was to study any potential lunar ionosphere and the solar wind. The idea of landing a positive ion detector on the Moon was first proposed...
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Cassini–Huygens (redirect from Cassini Plasma Spectrometer)
Enceladus. CAPS also investigated plasma in these areas, along with the solar wind and its interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere. CAPS was turned off in...
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the particles in the solar wind are electrons and protons, in approximately equal numbers. Because the Solar Wind Spectrometer made continuous measurements...
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Galileo (spacecraft) (redirect from Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer)
the UV spectrometer on the scan platform. The despun section's instruments included the camera system; the near infrared mapping spectrometer to make...
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aeronomy effects of the solar wind, the escape of atmospheric constituents, the intrinsic magnetic field, the penetration of the solar-wind magnetic field, the...
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Sonett; Marshall Space Flight Center, Jerry Modisette. Medium-Energy Solar Wind: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, C. W. Snyder and M. M. Neugebauer. Suprathermal...
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equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, UV grating monochromator, electron and proton spectrometers, gamma-ray burst detectors, solar wind plasma detectors, and...
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zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere...
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MESSENGER (redirect from Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer)
base of both northern and southern cusps of the magnetosphere where the solar wind can implant hydrogen in surface material. Principal investigator: William...
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relaying vital data using their magnetometers, spectrometers, and other instruments to detect interstellar, solar, and cosmic radiation. Their radioisotope...
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Thermosphere (section Solar wind)
on the mass spectrometer and incoherent scatter data: MSIS-83 J. Geophys. Res., 88, 10170, 1983 Willson, R.C., Measurements of the solar total irradiance...
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equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, UV grating monochromator, electron and proton spectrometers, gamma-ray burst detectors, solar wind plasma detectors, and...
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analogy to solar sailing may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the large surface is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy...
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Lunar Prospector (section Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS))
implanted by solar wind. The Alpha Particle Spectrometer (APS) was a cube approximately 18 cm (7.1 in) colocated with the neutron spectrometer on the end...
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BDRP-AM25 soil X-ray fluorescence spectrometer GS-15-STsV gamma ray spectrometer PrOP-V penetrometer MSB small solar batteries The two balloon aerobots...
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from the bus (which contained a cosmic ray detector, solar wind detector, and ultraviolet spectrometer) and entering the atmosphere on 22 July 1972 at 08:37...
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