HR: 1340h
AN: ED43A-0271    [Abstracts]
TI: Probing the Dayside Magnetosphere: Measurements by ACE Soon After Launch, August 25, 1997
AU: Briggs, H
EM: Caliheb@yahoo.com
AF: Shrewsbury High School, 64 Holden Street, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 United States
AU: Glines, T
EM: TravisGlines505@msn.com
AF: Littleton High School, 183 Oak Hill Avenue, Littleton, NH 03561 United States
AU: Farrugia, C J
EM: Charlie.Farrugia@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Jordanova, V K
EM: Vania.Jordanova@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: * Smith, C W
EM: Charles.Smith@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AB: Spacecraft ACE was launched on Aug. 25, 1997. In this poster we shall examine magnetic field data obtained by this spacecraft as it crossed through the dayside magnetosphere, entered a region around the magnetosphere called the magnetosheath (twice), and eventually crossed a weak bow shock. Then it entered the interplanetary medium characterized by a slow solar wind and a lower-than-usual magnetic field. Another craft called WIND was making measurements inside the solar wind. In this presentation we shall investigate the various regions of the Earth's dayside magnetosphere and magnetosheath encountered by ACE, highlighting their different magnetic properties. Finally we make comparisons between ACE magnetic field data and WIND solar wind data. The work represents the efforts of two New Hampshire high school students who participated in the UNH program Project SMART during the summer of 2004. Project SMART is an E/PO effort run by UNH to bring gifted high school students into the research environment and to motivate them to pursue a scientific career.
DE: 2111 Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds
DE: 2114 Energetic particles, heliospheric (7514)
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting