Published December 1986 | Version v1
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Viking satellite program - preliminary results from the APL Magnetic Field Experiment

Creators

  • 1. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
  • 2. Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD

Description

Sweden's Viking satellite, launched in February 1986, has been conducting plasma process observations in the earth magnetosphere and auroral regions; the U.S.-supplied APL Magnetic Field Experiment aboard Viking is used to determine field-aligned Birkeland current characteristics in previously unsampled regions of near-earth space. The Magnetic Field Experiment has an equivalent spatial resolution of 12 m in the auroral ionosphere when making measurements near apogee. The purposes of Viking's other instruments and their relationship to the Magnetic Field Experiment are discussed

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.
Journal Volume
7
Series
Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.
Journal Page Range
356-361
ISSN
0270-5214
CODEN
JHADD

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18079260
Subject category
S58: GEOSCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
AURORAL ZONES; EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PLASMA; SATELLITES; TELEMETRY; VIKING SPACE PROBES
Descriptors DEC
COMMUNICATIONS; DATA TRANSMISSION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SPACE VEHICLES