Magnetic Field/Electric Field Instruments
MFE-P
The Magnetometer on the Polar Spacecraft is a high precision instrument designed to measure the magnetic fields in the high and low altitude polar magnetosphere. This instrument will be used to investigate the behavior of field-aligned current systems and the role they play in the acceleration of particles and the dynamics of the fields in the polar cusp, magnetosphere, and magnetosheath. The instrument design has been influenced by the needs of the other instruments for immediately useable magnetic field data and high rate (100+ Vectors/Sec) data distributed on the spacecraft. The design provides a fully redundant instrument with enhanced measurement capabilities depending on available spacecraft power. For more information, see: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/polar/ and http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/polar_inst.shtml Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: MFE-P Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: Magnetic Field/Electric Field Instruments Short_Name: MFE-P Long_Name: Magnetic Fields Experiment (Polar) End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: POLAR End_Group Online_Resource: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/polar/ Sample_Image: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/pictures/polar/mfe2.gif Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 1996-02-24 Instrument_Owner: University of California, Los Angeles End_Group End_Group