Radio sounding of the magnetosphere from a lunar-based VLF array

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Jun 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994adspr..14..217g&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, vol. 14, no. 6, p. (6)217-(6)221

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Sounding, Earth Magnetosphere, Electron Density (Concentration), Lunar Bases, Plasmasphere, Radio Transmitters, Plasma Density, Remote Sensing, Wave Propagation, Moon, Space, Utilization, Science Aspects, Moon-Based Observations, Radio Methods, Magnetosphere, Earth, Structure, Dynamics, Plasma, Boundary Layers, Equipment, Techniques, Remote Sensing, Plasmasphere, Model, Parameters, Frequencies, Plasmasheet, Magnetopause, Magnetotail, Doppler Effect

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Using a lunar-based active radio transmitter and receiver system operating in the 'free space' wave modes, we can obtain much information on the structures and dynamics of remote magnetospheric plasma regions in a way similar to ionosondes. Powerful, narrow-band electromagnetic pulses can be transmitted over a wide frequency range (from 10 kHz to 1 MHz). The signals would be refracted and reflected off magnetospheric structures such as the plasmapause, plasmasheet, magnetopause, and the high and low latitude boundary layers. With a series of long dipole antennas, ranging in size from 400 m to 20 km with an output voltage ranging from 6 kV to less than 0.2 kV, a target plasma region at up to 100 RE can be explored. We illustrate this remote sensing technique by using the plasmasphere as a remote target, and modeling the propagations of the sounder transmitted and received pulses by ray tracing calculations.

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