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The AMES experience is a study of electric field, magnetic and light of the atmosphere as the aurora borealis.
On the ground surface, there is vertical atmospheric electric field. The intensity reaches 100 V/m. If you stand on the ground (picture A), equivalent electric potential immediately changes because you are much more conductive than atmospheric air. Therefore, it is hard to measure true atmospheric electric field.
The instruments consist of a field mill, light sensors and the digital data logger. The DDG gathers data from the field mill.
For BEXUS, AMES will fly in a box independent in the BEXUS gondola to be totally independent.
BEXUS 15 is back...
Our AMES Box seemed to have enjoyed the flight, everything is OK !
Kaori Mochizuki is analyzing the 3 hours of datas collected.
We have arrived in Esrange Space Center. We are not very dry but we have arrived... The launch campaign begins !
After the Flight Compatibility Test (succeeded) Sunday and some final adjustments these last days, the countdown for BEXUS 15 has started this morning at 06:30 A.M. The gondola will be launched in about 3h30...
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