The THEMIS mission aims to determine the trigger and large-scale evolution ofsubstorms by employing five identical micro-satellites which line up along the Earth’s magnetotail to track the motion of particles, plasma, and waves fromone point to another and for the first time, resolve space–time ambiguities in key regions of the magnetosphere on a global scale. The primary goal of THEMIS is to elucidate which magnetotail process is responsible for substorm onsetat the region where substorm auroras map: (i) local disruption of the plasma sheet current (current disruption) or (ii) the interaction of the current sheet with the rapid influx of plasma emanating from reconnection. The probes alsotraverse the radiation belts and the dayside magnetosphere, allowing THEMIS to address additional baseline objectives. This volume describes the mission, the instrumentation, and the data derived from them. The first mission to specifically research where and how substorms begin First multi-probe mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere and substorms Only collection of papers describing the THEMIS mission and its instruments
- ISBN: 978-0-387-89819-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 584
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés