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.
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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.
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A view of the five THEMIS satellites (the color dots) from a location above the north geographic pole.
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The camera moves down near the equatorial plane presenting a side view of the satellites in their orbits.
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Zooming in on the location of the satellites...
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we move to a location behind the Earth.
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Red isosurfaces fade in, representing the boundary of regions where electron temperature (AKA mean energy) exceeds 5 kilo-electron volts.
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The boundaries of the high-energy electrons engulf the THEMIS satellites.
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Energetic electrons continue to flow around the satellites.
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The substorm begins to subside around 11:30UTC.

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 at Berkeley): Scientist
Joachim Raeder (University of New Hampshire): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
THEMIS

Data Used:
THEMIS
2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
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SSCweb also referred to as: SSCweb ephemerides
Ephemeris - NASA/GSFC Space Physics Data Facility - 2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
Satellite ephemerides
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Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM) also referred to as: GGCM
Model - University of New Hampshire - 2007-03-23T10:30:00UTC - 2007-03-23T11:30:00UTC
MHD Magnetospheric simulation
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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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