Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.1435h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 8, p. 1435-1438
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Ionosphere: Electric Fields, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Atmospheric Electricity, Space Plasma Physics: Spacecraft/Atmosphere Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Spacecraft Sheaths, Wakes, Charging
Scientific paper
Comprehensive vector electric field detectors were flown during the DROPPS rocket experiment to study electrodynamic processes near the mesopause. This paper will discuss the first DROPPS rocket flight, which penetrated a strong polar mesosphere summer echo (PMSE) event that also included a weak noctilucent cloud (NLC) layer. During this flight, strong potential perturbations were observed which at first appeared to be caused by large geophysical electric fields. However, as shown here, the potential perturbations resulted from the rocket wake, and were not caused by an environmental electric field. This result strongly differs from other previous in situ experiments, which have reported large electric fields in PMSE regions.
Bounds Scott R.
Croskey Charles L.
Friedrich Manuel
Goldberg Richard A.
Gumbel Jörg
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