IMAGE and Cluster View Magnetic Reconnection

  • Released Friday, December 3, 2004
View full credits

The IMAGE and Cluster spacecraft were ideally positioned in their orbits to view the reconnection event which led to the proton aurora formation.

Movie showing IMAGE and Cluster in position for the event.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

This page was originally published on Friday, December 3, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

Missions

This page is related to the following missions:

Series

This page can be found in the following series:

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.