| PI of the experiment or contact person | Lars Peter Block |
|---|---|
| Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) | KTH (SWE) |
| E-mail of the PI or of the contact person | block@plasma.kth.se |
| Type of experiment | 2 pairs of orthogonal radial probes, each pair consisting of a probe
at the end of each of two 40-m wire booms (80 m tip-to-tip). These wire booms are extended in the spin plane and are kept straight by centrifugal force. Two 4-m stiff booms extending along the spin axis carry the two axial probes. |
| References about the experiment | Electric Field Measurements on Viking : First Results (E85.1) |
| Link(s) to Web site(s) | http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1986-019B&ex=4
http://www.ssc.se/ssd/ssat/viking/viking.html |
| Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 17-03-1986 |
| End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 12-05-1987 |
| Lifetime of the experiment (month) | 14 |
| Highest data rate | 4.3 kbps |
| Preliminary results | Signatures of the High-Altitude Polar Cusp and Dayside Auroral regions
as Seen by the Viking Electric Field Experiment (R85.1) |
| Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) | Quasi-static electric field vector |
| Data range | 0.05 - 400 mV/m |
| Sensitivity | 0.2 mV/m (> 50 mV/m) and 0.025 mV/m (< 50 mV/m) |
| Time resolution | 20 ms |
| Sampling rate | 53 or 106 vector samples per second |
| Data formats and supports | Black & White Microfiche |
| Location of the data | NSSDC |
| References about the data | http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1986-019B&ex=4&ds=* |
| High-resolution data (support, place, contact) | ????? |