TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN
Online ISSN : 1884-0485
ISSN-L : 1884-0485
n) Earth Observation
Image of the Cold Plasmas around the Earth Observed by Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) onboard KAGUYA: Geoscience from the Moon
Go MURAKAMIIchiro YOSHIKAWAAtsushi YAMAZAKIKazuo YOSHIOKAShingo KAMEDAWataru MIYAKEMakoto TAGUCHIMasayuki KIKUCHIMasato NAKAMURAShoichi OKANO
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2011 Volume 8 Issue ists27 Pages Tn_23-Tn_28

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We have succeeded in imaging of the terrestrial plasmasphere by the Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) aboard Japan's lunar orbiter KAGUYA. The view afforded by the KAGUYA orbit encompasses the plasma distribution in a single exposure, enabling us to examine for the first time the globally-averaged properties of the plasmasphere from the “side” (meridian) perspective. This is the world first image of the plasmasphere from the moon.

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