Sentences with phrase «aurora global exploration»
Until 2005, NASA's IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration) satellite used ultraviolet and radio waves to study auroras and how they are formed.
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(2000 - 2005)(Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration) NASA satellite used to study the auroras and magnetosphere.
Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.
The discovery of the Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration, reported in a blog post last week, presents the possibility that NASA could revive the mission, which once provided unparalleled views of Earth's magnetosphere.
Last year the wait ended, when NASA launched the Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration spacecraft, which carries the Low Energy Neutral Atom (LENA) imager.