
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- THEMIS logo: NASA's 2-year Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission consists of five identical probes that will track these violent, colorful eruptions near the North Pole. When the five identical probes align over the North American continent, scientists will collect coordinated measurements along the Sun-Earth line, allowing the first comprehensive look at the onset of substorms and how they trigger auroral eruptions. Over the mission’s lifetime, the probes should be able to observe some 30 substorms – sufficient to finally know their origin. THEMIS is a NASA-funded mission managed by the Explorers Program Office at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Science Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley is responsible for the project management, science instruments, mission integration, post launch operations and data analysis. Swales Aerospace of Beltsville, Md., manufactured the THEMIS spacecraft bus.
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