Reflecting at 30.4 and Antireflecting at 58.4 nm

David D. Allred and R. Steven Turley

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

dda@byu.edu; rst@byu.edu

IMAGE Mission http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Launched Mar 25 00• Had 4 instruments

• The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager was designed to study the distribution of cold plasma in Earth's plasmasphere by imaging the distribution of He+ ions through their emission at 30.4 nm.

• B. R. Sandel, A. L. Broadfoot, J. Chen, C. C. Curtis, R. A. King, T. C. Stone, R. H. Hill, J. Chen, O. H. W. Sigmund, R. Raffanti, David D. Allred, R. Steven Turley,  D. L. Gallagher, “The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager Investigation for the IMAGE Mission,” Space Science Reviews 91, 197-242 (2000).

EUV Pictures

EUV Movie of May 24, 2000 bright aurora and plasmasphere tail

3 Mirrors flew