Global-Scale Imaging:  New Approaches in Magnetospheric Research 

J. L. Green
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA 

A completely different paradigm in magnetospheric research will begin with the launch 
of NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) in early 2000. 
All the instruments on IMAGE will provide global-scale measurements of various plasma 
regimes in the Earth's magnetosphere.  The objective of the IMAGE mission is to 
determine the global response of the magnetosphere to changing solar wind conditions.  
IMAGE will address this broad objective in unique ways by using neutral atom imaging, 
far ultraviolet imaging, extreme ultraviolet imaging, and radio plasma imaging.  This 
talk will concentrate on what IMAGE is expected to measure based on an extensive 
number of simulations that have been done. 

Presented at The Catholic University of America Physics Department Colloquium, 
Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 4PM Room 106 Hannan Hall