Name | EDI electron drift instrument | ||||||||||
Mission | Cluster | ||||||||||
URL | https://csa.esac.esa.int/csa-web/#search | ||||||||||
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-jti98hx | ||||||||||
Abstract | Electric field measured by the drift velocity of monoenergetic artificial electron beams injected perpendicularly to the ambient magnetic field | ||||||||||
Description | EDI key scientific datasets for Cluster 1 (similar for Cluster 2 and Cluster 3, not working on Cluster 4)
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Publication | Paschmann, G., et al., The Electron Drift Instrument on Cluster: overview of first results, Ann. Geophys., 19, 1273, 2001; https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-19-1273-2001 Paschmann, G., et al., The Electron Drift Instrument for Cluster, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 233-269, 1997; https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004917512774 |
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Temporal Coverage | 2001-02-01 - current | ||||||||||
Mission Description | Cluster is the first constellation of four scientific spacecraft to study the Earth-Sun connection in three dimensions. Cluster offers unique opportunities to investigate physical processes in near-Earth space. Those processes are essential to study and understand the effects of the Sun on the vast Earth’s environment that is a highly varying system both in time and space. The four Cluster spacecraft in a polar orbit are unique in their ability to obtain a three-dimensional picture of medium and large-scale plasma structures. The varying Cluster spacecraft formation from 3 km to a few tens of thousands kilometres along the orbit enables multi-point local measurements of different regions at different scales that cannot be done with any other space mission. Escoubet, C.P., et al., The Cluster mission, Ann. Geophys., 19, 1197, 2001; https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-19-1197-2001 Escoubet, C.P, et al., Cluster - Science and Mission Overview, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 11-32, 1997; https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004923124586 |
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Creator Contact | Roy Torbert, Principal Investigator, University of New Hampshire, USA | ||||||||||
Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency | ||||||||||
Credit Guidelines | When publishing any works related to this experiment, please cite the experiment DOI found herein and the Cluster mission DOI (where appropriate). |