Oxygen Atoms in Near-Earth Environment

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

IMAGE/LENA Observes Oxygen Atoms in the near-Earth Environment

Electrically charged oxygen atoms (green) are ejected into the magnetosphere due to heating in the ionosphere. The red 'thermometer' displays the intensity of the solar wind (dynamic pressure) measured by the Geotail spacecraft. The yellow 'thermometer' represents the source intensity or hydrogen counts as measured by IMAGE/LENA.

Oxygen atoms (green) 'blowing off' from the Earth's atmosphere.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    IMAGE/LENA

  • Animation ID

    2435

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0010

  • Start Timecode

    01:02:55:00

  • End Timecode

    01:03:31:00

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    William Steigerwald

  • Visualization Date

    2002/04/24

  • Scientist

    Stephan A. Fuselier (LMATC), Thomas Moore (NASA/GSFC)

  • Citation

    Fuselier, S. A., H. L. Collin, A. G. Ghielmetti, E. S. Claflin, T. E. Moore, M. R. Collier, H. Frey, and S. B. Mende, Localized ion outflow in response to a solar wind pressure pulse, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2002.

  • Datasets

    Geotail

  • Keywords

    Neutral Atoms, Earth, Magnetosphere, Oxygen, Solar Wind

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science, Geophysics

  • Data Date

    2002/06/24T01:10:09-2002/06/24T02:11:12

  • Story URL

    stories/magnetosphere_20020509/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular