Dec 2001
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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM11D-01
Physics
2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers
Scientific paper
The four Cluster spacececraft have been launched successfully onboard two Soyuz rockets from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 16 July and 9 August 2000. The main goal of the Cluster mission is to study, in three dimensions, the small-scale plasma stuctures in the key plasma regions in the Earth environment: solar wind and bow shock, magnetopause, polar cusps, magnetotail, and auroral zone. The relative distance between the four spacecraft will be varied, according to the scientific region, between 200 and 18000 km during the course of the mission. The nominal operational phase has started since 1 February 2001. For the first phase of the mission when the satellite have crossed the exterior cusp (Feb. 2001) an inter-spacecraft distance of 600 km was chosen and for the second phase which has taken place in the magnetotail (Aug. 2001), the spacecraft have been moved further apart to 2000 km. The Cluster mission, including the access to the Cluster data through the Cluster Science Data System (CSDS), will be presented.
Escoubet C.
Goldstein Michael
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