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IMAGE/HENA views Oxygen in the Magnetosphere (blue version)
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IMAGE/HENA observes the oxygen ions, expelled from the Earth's atmosphere by the solar wind, return to the polar regions via the magnetic field.
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Movie of IMAGE/HENA data using a blue color table for oxygen intensity.
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The polar regions begin to brighten due to increased influx of oxygen atoms onto the upper atmosphere.
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The polar regions at their brightest due to the increase oxygen flux.
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Another moment of increased oxygen bombardment on the upper atmosphere.
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The oxygen cloud still surrounds the Earth.
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Yet another moment of increased oxygen bombardment on the upper atmosphere.
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Video ID: SVS2002-0010 *
Animator: Tom Bridgman
Studio: SVS
Writer: Bill Steigerwald(NASA/GSFC)
Date Completed: May 02, 2002
Duration: 291 frames,
15.7 seconds
Scientist: Donald Mitchell (Johns Hopkins University/APL), Pontus C. Brandt (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
Citation: Fuselier, S. A., H. L. Collin, A. G. Ghielmetti, E. S. Claflin, T. E. Moore,
M. R. Collier, H. Frey, and S. B. Mende, Localized ion outflow in response
to a solar wind pressure pulse, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2002.
Instrument: IMAGE/HENA
Keywords: Magnetosphere, Aurora, Oxygen, Earth, Solar Wind
DLESESubject: Space science, Geophysics
Data Collected: 2001-11-05T18:06 - 2001-11-06T23:45
Story: stories/magnetosphere_20020509/index.html
Animation Series: IMAGE and Neutral Atoms
Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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