Suborbital Program in Magnetospheric, Ionospheric,
Thermospheric, and Mesospheric (MITM) Physics:
Programs Active in FY 1998

Bering/Houston
Ground and balloon-borne observations of sprites and jets

Carlson/Berkeley
Auroral Sounding Rocket Studies

Christensen/Aerospace
Coupling of Dynamics and Aurora (CODA)*

Espy/Embry-Riddle
Ice content and odd-oxygen in noctilucent clouds (ICON)*

Goldberg/Goddard
DROPPS: The distribution and role of particles in the polar summer mesosphere using
coordinated rocket, radar, and lidar techniques*

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

Kelley/Cornell
Langmuir turbulence rocket

Kintner/Cornell
Cleft Accelerated Plasmas Experiments Rocket (CAPER)

Lynch/New Hampshire
Enstrophy - Filamentation of auroral currents

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

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

Pfaff/Goddard
Energetics of auroral plasmas: The role of thermal and superthermal particles*