Μάθημα : Ενημέρωση φοιτητών κατεύθυνσης Αστροφυσικής

Abstract:  ESA's Cluster mission is one of the longest-lived space missions along with Voyager and Pioneer, the SOHO solar observatory and the Advanced Composition Explorer ACE. It has been in space for 24 years, although initially it was planned for only 2 years. For the first time in space history, the Cluster mission successfully collected three-dimensional information on how the magnetic field shields our planet from solar particles and radiation for more than two solar cycles. To enable this, it was designed as a tetrahedron-shaped formation of four satellites, named Rumba, Salsa, Samba and Tango. In September 2024 the first satellite called Salsa re-entered into the Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific and scientific operations of the mission were ended. In this talk, I give an overview of the Cluster mission. A selection of results related to charged particle dynamics in the magnetosphere and its impact on the ionosphere is presented.

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