Summary
IMAGE will be launched in January 2000 just before solar maximum
All instruments on IMAGE will provide unique global images of magnetospheric storm & substorm dynamics
- Proton and Electron Aurora
- Ring Current distribution and a provisional Dst (see Jorgensen et. al, 1997)
- Electron density structures and magnetospheric boundary locations (plasmapause, cusp, etc.)
- Geocorona and He+ plasmaspheric distributions
For more details see -> http::/image.gsfc.nasa.gov/