IMAGE Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
25 Mar 2000, 8:34pm
UTC
Location
Pad
Space Launch Complex 2W
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
IMAGE
Mission Type
Planetary Science
Destination
Elliptical Orbit
IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:59pm UTC
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