Ionospheric Observations During a Geomagnetic Storm from LITES on the ISS
Abstract
The Limb-Imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric Extreme-Ultraviolet Spectrograph (LITES) is an extreme-ultraviolet imaging spectrograph that launched in February 2017 and was installed on the International Space Station (ISS). LITES is limb-viewing ( 150 - 350 km tangent altitude) and measures airglow emissions from 60 - 140 nm with 0.2° angular and 1 nm spectral resolutions. We present early LITES results of observations during a G2 geomagnetic storm in April 2017. In addition to LITES data, we will show complementary ground-based incoherent scatter radar (ISR) observations from Millstone Hill during this storm. The combination of LITES EUV space-based observations with the ground-based radio data is an example of the capability of campaign-style measurements of the ionosphere-thermosphere system using multiwavelength ground- and space-based instruments.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AGUFMSA51B2390F
- Keywords:
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- 2411 Electric fields;
- IONOSPHERE;
- 2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions;
- IONOSPHERE;
- 2463 Plasma convection;
- IONOSPHERE;
- 2788 Magnetic storms and substorms;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS