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| Titel |
SMILE – New mission to image the magnetosphere |
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C.-Philippe Escoubet, Chi Wang, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Steve Sembay, Lei Dai, Lei Li, Eric Donovan, Emma Spanswick, David Sibeck, Andy Read, Denis Rebuffat, Arno Wielders, Jianhua Zheng, Jens Romstedt, Walfried Raab, David Lumb |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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en
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
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250127299
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-7159.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a novel self-standing mission to be jointly developed between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It will observe the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling via simultaneous in situ solar wind/magnetosheath plasma and magnetic field measurements, X-Ray images of the magnetosheath and polar cusps, and UV images of global auroral distributions. Remote sensing of the cusps with X-ray imaging is now possible thanks to the relatively recent discovery of solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) X-ray emission, first observed at comets, and subsequently found to occur in the vicinity of the Earth’s magnetosphere. The SMILE science as well as the results of the on-going study undertaken jointly by ESA and CAS will be presented. |
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