Suborbital Program in Magnetospheric, Ionospheric, Thermospheric, and Mesospheric (MITM) Physics: Programs Active in FY 1996

Arnoldy/New Hampshire
Study of wave-particle interactions on auroral field lines with the PHAZE 2 sounding rocket

Broadfoot/Arizona
Plasma imaging: He+ in the earth's plasmasphere

Carlson/Berkeley
Auroral sounding rocket experiments

Christensen/Aerospace
Coordinated study of magnetospheric/thermospheric coupling and dynamics in the diffuse aurora

Earle/Utah
/SAIC Rocket investigation of descending plasma layers in the lower ionosphere

Espy/Utah
An investigation of the effects of mesospheric aerosols on the odd-oxygen chemistry and distribution

Kane/Penn State
Coordinated rocket and ground-based studies of high-latitude fine-scale structure in ion-sodium sporadic layering events

Kelley/Cornell
An experiment to study sporadic atom layers in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Kelley/Cornell
Langmuir turbulence rocket

Kintner/Cornell
Cleft Accelerated Plasmas Experiments Rocket (CAPER)

Larsen/Clemson
Sounding rocket investigations of eddy and molecular diffusivities in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere

Maynard/Mission Research
Coordinated rocket and ground based investigation of the spatial and temporal structure of the open/closed boundary and the dayside cusp

Mlynczak/Langley
Mesosphere-thermosphere Emissions for Ozone Remote Sensing (METEORS)

Parks/Washington
A rocket experiment to study pulsating aurora

Pfaff/Goddard
Rocket/radar investigation of lower ionosphere electrodynamics associated with intense mid-latitude sporadic-E layers

Smith/Goddard
A sounding rocket investigation of transient features in the cusp

Torbert/New Hampshire
Auroral Turbulence II

Wescott/Alaska
Shaped charge injection of field aligned Ba and Ca plasma to investigate the physics of mass dependent ion acceleration

Woods/Colorado
Solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow rocket experiments