Reconnection Fronts - When Satellites Align...
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- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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In July of 2012, a fleet of spacecraft studying Earth's magnetosphere were in an ideal alignment to detect a particle flow predicted in magnetospheric models. The grey mesh shell structure represents the approximate location of the magnetopause.
In this visualization, THEMIS, ARTEMIS (in orbit around the Moon), and Geotail, as well as the particle detectors on the GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellites achieved a good alignment around 09:45 on July 3, 2012 to detect one of the particle flows predicted by magnetospheric models.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
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Writer
- Karen Fox (ADNET)
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Video editor
- Genna Duberstein (ADNET)
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Scientists
- Joachim Raeder (University of New Hampshire)
- Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California at Berkeley)
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Producer
- Karen Fox (ADNET)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
DE421 (A.K.A. JPL DE421)
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
See more visualizations using this data setSSCweb ephemerides (A.K.A. SSCweb)
Satellite ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov
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