Several series of auroral and geocoronal images from th Dynamics Explorer Mission are presented and analyzed. It is found that the motion of the transpolar arc of a theta aurora is correlated with the y-component of the IMF; the arc motion is in the general direction of the y-component. In addition, a sequence of global images of a small auroral substorm shows the initial development of intense luminosities in a relatively small spatial region or 'bright spot' in the premidnight sector of the auroral oval and a subsequent appearance of an expanding area of lesser intensities at low latitudes and contiguous to the midnight boundary of the bright spot. Finally, a series of images of the geocorona in scattered solar Ly-alpha emissions is used to obtain a best-fit spherical model of atomic hydrogen densities in the earth's exosphere; a Chamberlain model provides an adequate fit to radial distances of 4.5 earth-radii, beyond which an exponential fit is used. The geocoronal tail is detected as an asymmetric increase in scattered Ly-alpha intensities in the antisolar direction.
Images of the earth's aurora and geocorona from the Dynamics Explorer mission
Advances in Space Research ; 5 , 4 19
1985-01-01
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