IMAGE

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) will use neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to:
- Identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales;
- Determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and,
- Discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
TiNi Rotary Actuators used to enable 2 of the satellite's
critical imaging instruments.
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov

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