Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes
- Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes
Infobox_Spacecraft
Name = Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes
Organization = NASA
Mission_Type = Two Earth orbiters investigating the ionosphere and thermosphere
Number of Observatories = 2
Inclination = 60 degrees
The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes (I-TSP) is a NASA mission which will study the ionosphere and the thermosphere. This mission is part of the Living With a Star program, the second mission in a pair of geospace missions. The first mission is the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, which launches in 2012.
Mission
Like the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, the I-TSP will be a twin spacecraft mission. The mission is to study distributions of ionospheric and thermospheric densities, geomagnetic disturbances, and ionospheric irreularities. This mission relates to the Sun and solar storms in that it studies the effects of solar storms on geospace. [Cite web | url =http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11188&page=25 | title = Future Drections in Solar and Space Physics | work = The National Academics Press | accessdate = 2007-08-14] This mission can save astronauts and satellites.
Goals
The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Storm Probes mission has two goals:
# Determine the effects of solar variability on the global-scale behavior of ionospheric electron density
# Determine the solar and geospace causes of small scale ionospheric irregularities
ee also
*Ionosphere
*Radiation Belt Storm Probes
*Living With a Star
*Thermosphere
References
External links
* [http://www.lws.nasa.gov/geospace/HTML/Mission/LWSgeospaceITSP.html More Information on Geospace Missions Page]
* [http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Living With a Star page]
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