Journal article
Space experiments with particle accelerators: SEPAC
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510, U.S.A.1
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, U.S.A.2
Nichols Research Corporation, Arlington, VA 22209, U.S.A.3
ISAS, Tokyo, Japan4
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, U.S.A.5
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA 94304, U.S.A.6
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A.7
The Space Experiments with Particle Accelarators (SEPAC), which flew on the ATLAS 1 mission, used new techniques to study natural phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere by introducing energetic perturbations into the system from a high power electron beam with known characteristics.
Properties of auroras were studied by directing the electron beam into the upper atmosphere while making measurements of optical emissions. Studies were also performed of the critical ionization velocity phenomenon.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Pages: | 263-270 |
| ISSN: | 18791948 and 02731177 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0273-1177(94)90146-5 |
