A measurement of perpendicular current density in an aurora
A Nike Tomahawk sounding rocket was launched into a 400-gamma auroral substorm from Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden. The rocket instrumentation included a split Langmuir-probe plasma-velocity detector and a double-probe electric-field detector. Above 140-km altitude, the electric field deduced from the ion-...
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1975
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| Online Access: | http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19760027777 |