Auroral Spatial Structures Probe Project

<p> &nbsp;</p> <p align="center"> &nbsp;<strong><u>Methodology </u></strong></p> <p> Fly a high altitude sounding rocket with multiple sub-payloads to measure electric and magnetic fields during an auroral event. Use ground based observations to observe winds and conductivities in the ionosphere.</p> <p> The Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP) is a NASA sounding rocket mission that, will be used to <a href="adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFMSA31A1959S" id="_GPLITA_0" in_rurl="i.trkjmp.com/click?v=VVM6MzYxMzI6MjE1NTpzdHVkeTo2M2Y3MDQyYTE2ZTU0YTE5N2Q3OTVmNjk3ZWVhNmQwMjp6LTEwNDEtMTA3NTUzOmFkc2Ficy5oYXJ2YXJkLmVkdTozOTQ1NjpmYTVkMTdiYzQzNjMxMGQxNjJlYTMxYmFmYzZhN2MzMQ" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance">study</a> both the spatial and temporal small scale variation of the E-fields during breakup aurora and geomagnetically active conditions.

This will be accomplished through the use of a constellation of small payloads that separate relative to each other throughout a sounding rocket flight. The multiple baseline observations of the electric and magnetic fields will be used to observe variability of both the E-field and the Poynting flux. These observations will be placed in the context of available data, including winds, large scale E-fields, and proxy conductivity (airglow images) observations.