DIRECT IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF AURORAL PARAMETERS.
Three rockets were fired into visible auroral forms from Ft Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in the winters of 1964 and 1965. The rocket payloads contained a complex array of instruments in a program to simultaneously conduct direct in situ measurements of many important auroral parameters. The technique...
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1966
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Summary: | Three rockets were fired into visible auroral forms from Ft Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in the winters of 1964 and 1965. The rocket payloads contained a complex array of instruments in a program to simultaneously conduct direct in situ measurements of many important auroral parameters. The techniques and results of these measurements are presented followed by a discussion on the inter-relationships between the atmospheric ionization, heating, excitation, and auroral light emission, resulting from the energetic electron flux interacting with the atmosphere. |
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