Introduction: The Equator-S mission
Abstract
In spite of its short operational life of only five months, the major goals of the Equator-S mission were fulfilled, except that its contribution to the ISTP science is restricted to the morning sector of the outer magnetosphere. A set of twelve papers following this introduction is a first documentation of the achievements. They span from the successful testing and operation of the most advanced and complex way of measuring electric fields in a hot plasma environment by means of electron beams, to various investigations at or near the equatorial magnetopause and in the plasma sheet.
- Publication:
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Annales Geophysicae
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00585-999-1499-x
- Bibcode:
- 1999AnGeo..17.1499H