TIMAS CAME BACK!
Thanks to:
Ed Shelley who conceived the instrument;
The engineers at Lockheed, Southw est Research Institute,Mullard Space
Sciences Center, and Berne University who designed and built the robust
systems;
Ron Black of SwRI who identified the problem and proposed the solution;
Bob Hoffman and Barbara Giles who slogged through countless meetings and
reviews;
The Polar Science Team for their support;
Mario Acuna for effective advocacy when it mattered;
Niki Fox for attending to the thousands of details involved (and for arranging
a major magnetic storm for TIMAS’ first day back);
The Polar Operations Team for implementing the thousands of details
involved;
Daryl Carr, Tony Magoncelli, Harry Collin, and Gary Heyman for operational
support for TIMAS.
TIMAS HV on 15:54 3/30/2001
Major Magnetic storm onset ~06:00 3/31/2001
TIMAS monitors motions of the magnetosphere in response
to changes in solar wind pressure after 07:00
TIMAS observes unusual upwelling ion
signature after the geomagnetic storm
Cusp
Normal Upwelling Ions
Unusual Upwelling Ions