A Novel probe for in-situ Electron density and Neutral Wind (ENWi) measurements in the near Earth space

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• 作者：G. Manju ; ^{manju_spl@vssc.gov.in} ; R. Sridharan¹ ; P. Sreelatha ; Sudha Ravindran ; M.K. Madhav Haridas ; Tarun K. Pant ; P. Pradeep Kumar ; R. Satheesh Thampi ; Neha Naik ; N. Mridula ; Lijo Jose ; S.G. Sumod
• 关键词：Electron density ; Neutral wind ; Ionosphere ; Ion drift
• 刊名：Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：January 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：74
• 期：Complete
• 页码：81-86
• 全文大小：614 K

文摘

A novel method for the in-situ measurement of thermospheric and ionospheric parameters has successfully been tried out by means of a new probe ENWi. The probe has been designed for neutral wind and electron density measurements up to ?15 km. ENWi was successfully flight tested on sounding rockets from Thumba, India during the recent annular solar eclipse (January 2010) that passed right over the rocket range. The present paper deals with the basic concept that has been successfully put to test for neutral wind measurements in a critical height region, thus highlighting its potential to fill up a void in the Aeronomic studies.