Yohkoh

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

SAMPEX - Yohkoh: Solar Modification of Relativistic Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts

The Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, SAMPEX, measures fluxes of energetic particles from the sun, the Earth's magnetosphere, and cosmic ray sources over a broad range of energies. The four instruments aboard SAMPEX are the Low-Energy Ion Analyzer (LEICA), The Heavy Ion Large Telescope (HILT), The Mass Spectrometer Telescope (MAST), and the Proton-Electron Telescope (PET). The Soft X-ray Telescope on the Yohkoh satellite takes daily full-disk soft X-ray images of the Sun. Comparing datasets from the two satellites allows correlation of electron fluxes in the Earth's radiation belts with solar output.

A comparison of energetic electron fluxes (> 0.4 MeV) over the North Pole from the PET P1 solid state detector during the period 7/19/1993 through 8/6/1994 with soft X-ray images from Yohkoh

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SAMPEX/PET

  • Animation ID

    90

  • Video ID

    SVS1995-0008

  • Start Timecode

    0:01:06:00

  • End Timecode

    0:04:49:00

  • Animator

    Liam Krauss

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1995/11/07

  • Scientist

    S. G. Kanekal (University of Maryland), Dan Baker (University of Colorado), Berndt Klecker (Max Planck), J. R. Cummings (California Institute of Technology), Richard Mewaldt (California Institute of Technology), L. W. Acton (Montana State University)

  • Keywords

    Sun, Energetic Particles

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    1993/07/19-1994/08/06

  • Story URL

    http://www510.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/sampex.htm

  • Animation Type

    Regular