The Fields Experiment will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields,
radio emissions, and shock waves that course through the Sun's atmospheric plasma.
The experiment also serves as a giant dust detector, registering voltage signatures when specks of space dust hit the spacecraft's antenna.
The FIELDS suite consists of four electric field antennas (V1-V4) mounted near the edge of the SPP heat shield, a voltage sensor (V5), mounted on the SPP magnetometer boom with two fluxgate magnetometers (MAGs) and a search coil magnetometer (SCM).
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The Fields Experiment will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields,
radio emissions, and shock waves that course through the Sun's atmospheric plasma.
The experiment also serves as a giant dust detector, registering voltage signatures when specks of space dust hit the spacecraft's antenna.
The FIELDS suite consists of four electric field antennas (V1-V4) mounted near the edge of the SPP heat shield, a voltage sensor (V5), mounted on the SPP magnetometer boom with two fluxgate magnetometers (MAGs) and a search coil magnetometer (SCM).
| Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Stuart.D.Bale | |||
| 2. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/James.M.Weygand |
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