Abstract
EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION,
VOL. 80, NO. 11,
PAGE 123, 1999
doi:10.1029/99EO00084
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Challenges of studying Earth's magnetosphere discussed
Center for Space Plasma and Aeromatic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Ala., USA
Space Science Lab, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., USA
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA
How do you view a high resolution image on a low resolution screen? Web surfers often encounter poorly designed Web pages that require the user to scroll around an on-screen graphic much too large for their computer monitor. Last fall, about 100 scientists met to discuss a similar problem in magnetospheric physics: How do you study the Earth's magnetosphere, with its wide range of spatial and temporal scales, using the poor spatial resolution of todays limited fleet of spacecraft? The answers they came up with were threefold—use imaging to fill in the gaps, use much larger fleets of spacecraft, and use modeling to tie everything together.
Citation: (1999), Challenges of studying Earth's magnetosphere discussed, Eos Trans. AGU, 80(11), 123, doi:10.1029/99EO00084.
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