Auroral Xray imaging - Sweden 1986
23:33 UT, 26 July 1986
This image was taken by an Xray pinhole camera, flown on a stratospheric
balloon from Kiruna, Sweden in July, 1986. The area of the sky shown is
approximately 100 km across, and was taken during a period of intense visual
aurora, near local midnight. The bright area in the southwest corner of
the image measures ~20 km across, and moved in a matter of minutes across
the field of view of the camera. A movie of this event is shown in the
second abstract, below. Another movie, showing dayside auroral Xrays,
is shown in the third abstract.
Abstracts from the Fall 1992 AGU meeting
- Substorms Observed by Balloonborne Instruments, Geostationary
Particle Detectors, and the VIKING UV Imager: LargeScale
Features
- Substorms Observed by Balloonborne Instruments, Geostationary
Particle Detectors, and the VIKING UV Imager: Pulsating
Aurora
- Substorms Observed by Balloonborne Instruments, Geostationary
Particle Detectors, and the VIKING UV Imager: Relativistic
Dayside Electron Precipitation
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