Viking satellite program - preliminary results from the APL Magnetic Field Experiment

Journal Article · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1986 · Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6541164

Potemra, T A; Zanetti, L J; Erlandson, R E; Gustafsson, G; Acuna, M H

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.

• Research Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
• OSTI ID: 6541164
• Journal Information: Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.; (United States), Vol. 7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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