NASA/TM-108494, Giles, B.L. and McCook, M.A. and McCook, M.W. and Miller, G.P., CRRES Combined Radiation and Release Effects Satellite Program, Space Sciences Laboratory, Science and Engineering Directorate NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812, and *The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL., June 1995, pp. 165, Format(s): PDF 6422k |
The various regions of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system are coupled by flows of charged particle beams and electromagnetic waves. This coupling gives rise to processes that affect both technical and non-technical aspects of life on Earth. The CRRES Program
sponsored experiments which were designed to produce controlled and known input to the space environment and the effects were measured with arrays of diagnostic instruments.
Large amounts of material were used to modify and perturb the environment in a controlled manner, and response to this was studied. The CRRES and PEGSAT satellites were
dual-mission spacecraft with a NASA mission to perform active chemical-release experiments, grouped into categories of tracer, modification, and simulation experiments.
Two sounding rocket chemical release campaigns completed the study
| Keywords: | charged particles; crres (satellite); electromagnetic radiation; environment effects; magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; particle beams |
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| CASI Document ID Number: | 96N11211 |
| Subjects: | Geoscience: Geosciences (General) |
| ID Code: | 285 |
| Deposited On: | 27 June 2002 |