Plasmasphere from the Moon

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm11a1597y&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM11A-1597

Physics

2768 Plasmasphere, 2794 Instruments And Techniques

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We have succeeded in observations by the Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) aboard Japan"fs lunar orbiter KAGUYA to characterize the evolution of the near-Earth plasma torus. The view afforded by the KAGUYA orbit encompasses the plasma torus in a single exposure, enabling us to examine for the first time the globally-averaged properties of the torus. We focus on a study period that began with a moderate erosion event, and follow the plasma refilling from the upper atmosphere for a period of 3 days. The refilling rate (the expansion rate of the cold dense plasma onto the equatorial plane) ranges from approximately 1600 km per day to 4800 km per day. A flux transfer event was identified from the "gside view"h of the Earth, in which cold dense plasmas (90 cm-3) on geomagnetic flux tube was transferred to the outer magnetosphere of the Earth. This is called "gGeoscience from the Moon"h.

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