图书简介
This book provides a comprehensive overview of NASA’s ICON space mission. Written before ICON’s launch, the papers contain the most complete description of the ICON flight instruments and preflight operation plans.In addition to the technology and engineering, the volume describes ICON’s scientific mission to investigate how lower atmospheric tropospheric dynamics affect the high altitude ionosphere, and why special emphasis was placed on understanding how neutral winds affect the ionospheric dynamics. This book helps researchers better understand ICON’s workings and why ionospheric behavior is so important to technically advanced societies, as systems based on satellite communications and GPS rely on the propagation of radio waves through the ionosphere. Previously published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection “The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission”
Preface.- The Ionospheric Connection Explorer Mission: Mission Goals and Design.- Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI): Instrument Design and Calibration.- Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI): Monolithic Interferometer Design and Test.- Design and Performance of the ICON EUV Spectrograph.- The Far Ultra-Violet Imager on the Icon Mission.-Ion Velocity Measurements for the Ionospheric Connections Explorer.- Time-Delay Integration Imaging with ICON’s Far-Ultraviolet Imager.- Daytime O/N2 Retrieval Algorithm for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON).- Daytime Ionosphere Retrieval Algorithm for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON).- Inferring Nighttime Ionospheric Parameters with the Far Ultraviolet Imager Onboard the Ionospheric Connection Explorer.- The MIGHTI Wind Retrieval Algorithm: Description and Verification.-Retrieval of Lower Thermospheric Temperatures from O2 A Band Emission: The MIGHTI Experiment on ICON.- On the Specification of Upward-Propagating Tides for ICON Science Investigations.- Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer: TIEGCM-ICON.- IDA4D: Ionospheric Data Assimilation for the ICON Mission.- SAMI3_ICON: Model of the Ionosphere/Plasmasphere System.