Oxygen in the Magnetosphere (Blue)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

IMAGE/HENA views Oxygen in the Magnetosphere (blue version)

IMAGE/HENA observes the oxygen ions, expelled from the Earth's atmosphere by the solar wind, return to the polar regions via the magnetic field.

The oxygen cloud still surrounds the Earth.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    IMAGE/HENA

  • Animation ID

    2445

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0010

  • Start Timecode

    01:05:15:00

  • End Timecode

    01:06:49:11

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    William Steigerwald

  • Visualization Date

    2002/05/02

  • Scientist

    Donald Mitchell (Johns Hopkins University/APL), Pontus C. Brandt (Johns Hopkins University/APL)

  • 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.

  • Keywords

    Magnetosphere, Aurora, Oxygen, Earth, Solar Wind

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science, Geophysics

  • Data Date

    2001-11-05T18:06 - 2001-11-06T23:45

  • Story URL

    stories/magnetosphere_20020509/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular