Paper#: 61
Poster #:
Session Name: Plenary
Room: West Ballroom
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9:45-10:10 a.m.
Abstract Title: New Perspectives of Substorm Development as Seen by IMAGE
PresentSurname: Burch, J.L.
All Authors: J.L. Burch
Abstract : The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) mission was launched on March 25, 2000, and full science operations began in mid-May 2000. IMAGE performs multi-spectral imaging of the plasmas in the Earth's magnetosphere, including far-ultraviolet imaging of precipitating protons, extreme ultraviolet imaging of helium ions in the plasmasphere, energetic neutral atom imaging in three energy bands covering the range from 10 eV to 500 keV, and radio sounding of total plasma densities throughout the inner magnetosphere. The use of these techniques has led to new knowledge about the mixture of ionospheric and solar plasmas that occurs during substorms, the global development of proton precipitation and the partial ring current, the substorm dynamics of the plasmasphere, and the relationships between substorms and magnetic storms. In this paper, recent imaging results specific to substorms are reviewed.