Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration
The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration was a NASA and Southwest Research Institute mission designed to observe Earth's magnetosphere as a connected global system. Neutral-atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging instruments remotely tracked how magnetospheric plasma responded to the solar wind.
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Identity
- Aliases
- IMAGE
- Name
- Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration
- Slug
- imager-for-magnetopause-to-aurora-global-exploration
- Status
- completed
Details
- Astronauts
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- Description
- The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration was a NASA and Southwest Research Institute mission designed to observe Earth's magnetosphere as a connected global system. Neutral-atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging instruments remotely tracked how magnetospheric plasma responded to the solar wind.
- End Date
- 2005-12-18
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- IMAGE exceeded its planned two-year mission and returned more than five years of observations. It provided the first mission-scale global views of magnetospheric structure and auroral responses, replacing a purely local sampling picture with remotely sensed maps of the system's large-scale dynamics.
- Start Date
- 2000-03-25
- Vehicle Families
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/image/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 15:23:47 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 15:23:47 UTC
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- Space Stations
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