POLAR
POLAR, launched February 24, 1996, is the second Global Geospace Science
(GGS) mission.
The spacecraft has 11 scientific instruments for investigation of a variety
of phenomena in the Earth's polar regions. These instruments
measure plasma, energetic particles and fields in the high-latitude polar regions, and energy input through the dayside cusp,
determine characteristics of the auroral plasma acceleration outflow,
provide global, multispectral, auroral images of the footprint of magnetospheric energy deposition into the ionosphere and upper atmosphere,
help determine the role of the ionosphere in substorm phenonmena and in the overall magnetospheric energy balance. A more detailed description of POLAR is available at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Would you like to see the most recent visible images from Polar? Or, perhaps listen to sounds of the magnetosphere recorded by the Plasma Wave Instrument?
POLAR HYDRA Experiment
The Experimental Space Physics Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire
is one the the collaborators for the HYDRA electron-ion detector on POLAR.
We have a couple of PAPCO modules for HYDRA. One creates pitch angle spectrograms,
and the other calculates integrated number flux and energy flux. These modules may be included in the Iowa Hydra module in the future. There is also an IDL command line tool for making pitch angle spectra.
More information about HYDRA is available at the University of Iowa.
DATA PRODUCTS FOR HYDRA
UNH Hydra Staff
Dr. Charles Farrugia
John Googins
Dr. Vania Jordanova
Jerry Needell
Dr. Roy Torbert
