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Dec 1986
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Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (ISSN 0270-5214), vol. 7, Oct.-Dec. 1986, p. 356-361. Research supported by the Swedish Board
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Auroral Zones, Birkeland Currents, Earth Magnetosphere, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Space Plasmas, Telemetry, Viking Spacecraft, Electric Fields, Field Aligned Currents, High Temperature Plasmas, Magnetic Fields, Real Time Operation
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Sweden's Viking satellite, launched in February 1986, has been conducting plasma process observations in the earth magnetosphere and auroral regions; the U.S.-supplied APL Magnetic Field Experiment aboard Viking is used to determine field-aligned Birkeland current characteristics in previously unsampled regions of near-earth space. The Magnetic Field Experiment has an equivalent spatial resolution of 12 m in the auroral ionosphere when making measurements near apogee. The purposes of Viking's other instruments and their relationship to the Magnetic Field Experiment are discussed.
Acuña Mario Humberto
Erlandson Robert E.
Gustafsson Georg
Potemra Thomas A.
Zanetti Lawrence J.
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