Overview
Documents the science, the mission, the spacecraft and the instrumentation on a unique NASA mission to study the Earth’s dynamic, dangerous and fascinating Van Allen radiation belts
Describes new techniques for measuring plasmas, energetic particles, electric fields, magnetic fields and waves
Provides the necessary scientific background and mission description to prepare researchers and students for analyzing data from the mission
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This collection of articles provides broad and detailed information about NASA’s Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) twin-spacecraft Earth-orbiting mission. The mission has the objective of achieving predictive understanding of the dynamic, intense, energetic, dangerous, and presently unpredictable belts of energetic particles that are magnetically trapped in Earth’s space environment above the atmosphere. It documents the science of the radiation belts and the societal benefits of achieving predictive understanding. Detailed information is provided about the Van Allen Probes mission design, the spacecraft, the science investigations, and the onboard instrumentation that must all work together to make unprecedented measurements within a most unforgiving environment, the core of Earth’s most intense radiation regions.
This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers active in space science, solar-terrestrial interactions and studies of the upper atmosphere.
Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol. 179/1-4, 2013.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. James L. Burch is Vice President, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Space Science and Engineering Division. He was Principal Investigator for the NASA IMAGE global magnetospheric imaging mission and is now PI for the Instrument Suite Science Team of the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (to be launched in 2014). Dr. Burch is a Fellow of the AGU and received the AGU Fleming Medal in recognition of his work in the field of space physics. He has served as editor-in-chief of Geophysical Research Letters and as President of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the AGU.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Van Allen Probes Mission
Editors: Nicola Fox, James L. Burch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7433-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7432-7Published: 11 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7870-7Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7433-4Published: 10 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 647
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol. 179/1-4, 2013
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Plasma Physics