IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a satellite that will be launched in 2000 that will study how the solar wind affects the Earth's magnetosphere. In order to do this, the satellite will carry sensors that will make images of the neutral atoms, ultraviolet rays, and radio plasma it finds in its orbit.
The Taylor University Physics Department is building the solid-state detector portion of the high energy neutral atoms (HENA) instrument. As of the summer of 1997, [current state of project].
Eventually we will be receiving data from the IMAGE satellite about the particles in the magnetosphere and how their distribution changes. Here is a sample interface of the data analysis program.
