Prospect of China's Auroral Fine-structure Imaging System (CAFIS) at Zhongshan station in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Shunlin, Liu, Desheng, Han, Hongqiao, Hu, Dehong, Huang, Beichen, Zhang, Huigen, Yang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2008
• Subjects: Space; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2366/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2366/1/A200802016.pdf

A new auroral imaging system is reported which is planned to be deployed at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica in the end of 2009. The system will focus on study of optical auroras in small scales and be called China's Auroral Fine-structure Imaging System (CAFIS). The project of CAFIS is carried...