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.
Movie of IMAGE-HENA data using a blue color table for oxygen intensity.
The polar regions begin to brighten due to increased influx of oxygen atoms onto the upper atmosphere.
The polar regions at their brightest due to the increase oxygen flux.
Another moment of increased oxygen bombardment on the upper atmosphere.
The oxygen cloud still surrounds the Earth.
Yet another moment of increased oxygen bombardment on the upper atmosphere.
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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".
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Scientists
- Donald Mitchell (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
- Pontus C. Brandt (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
Writer
- William Steigerwald (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, May 9, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
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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 used in this visualization
[IMAGE: HENA]
ID: 43This dataset can be found at: http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/HENA/HENA.html
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