The discovery of nitrogen ions in the earth's magnetosphere

Details The discovery of nitrogen ions in the earth's magnetosphere The discovery of nitrogen ions in the earth's magnetosphere

Sep 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982georl...9..937c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 9, Sept. 1982, p. 937-940.

Physics

37

Earth Magnetosphere, Nitrogen Ions, Plasma Diagnostics, Plasmasphere, Polar Caps, Space Plasmas, Dynamics Explorer Satellites, Electric Fields, Mass Spectrometers, Satellite Observation, Thermal Diffusion

Scientific paper

Operating in a mass scanning mode, the Retarding Ion Mass Spectrometer (RIMS) has measured N(+) and N(++) ions in the magnetosphere. Both N(+) and N(++) are observed in the plasmasphere, with N(+) ions also seen flowing out of the northern polar cap at altitudes up to 3 earth radii. The N(+) fluxes are 5 to 10% of the O(+) fluxes with the N(++) fluxes at 1-5% of the N(+) fluxes.

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