Sun ID: 3485

THEMIS and the March 2007 Substorm

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on December 10, 2007

NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission observed the dynamics of a rapidly developing substorm in March of 2007. This visualization combines the orbits of the THEMIS satellites with a magnetohydrodynamical simulation of the Earth's magnetosphere corresponding to this time.

Opening with a view over the North geographic pole, we see the five THEMIS satellites moving along their common orbit. The camera then moves down into the equatorial plane and behind the Earth before we fade in the isosurface enclosing the regions where particles have at least 5keV of energy.

The camera moves down near the equatorial plane presenting a side view of the satellites in their orbits.

Red isosurfaces fade in, representing the boundary of regions where electron temperature (AKA mean energy) exceeds 5 kilo-electron volts.

For More Information

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/northern_lights.html

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Animator
Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California, Berkeley): Scientist
Joachim Raeder (University of New Hampshire): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
THEMIS

Data Used:
Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM) 2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
SSCweb 2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
THEMIS 2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of this series:
THEMIS Dayside Science

Keywords:
SVS >> Geomagnetic Field
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Magnetosphere
SVS >> Simulation
SVS >> THEMIS
SVS >> iPod
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