Ion Temperature and Density

Description

This data set, provided by the principal investigator, contains ion density and temperature data. The data set is on a binary tape written on a CDC 6600 computer with the scope 3.3 operating system. The tape contains results of the analysis on the data observed in 4 months (February, March, April, and November 1969). Each record in a file contains ephemeris data and the results from one sweep. The sweeps are obtained once every min and last for 2 s, hence the output parameters represent averaged values over 2-s periods at 1 min intervals. The output parameters presented include ion temperature, ion density, and vehicle potential. Other parameters shown include the following: date of measurement, orbit number, ground station that received the data, altitude, local time, geodetic latitude and longitude, invariant latitude, McIlwain's L-shell parameter, magnetic local time, intensity and orientation of the geomagnetic field, components of the solar position vector, spacecraft velocity, and spacecraft attitude. The data are available in graphical form in data set 69-009A-08A.