THEMIS

Time History of Events and Macroscale interactions During Substorms

THEMIS studies how mass and energy move through the near-Earth space environment to determine the physical processes initiating auroras.It is comprised of five satellites spread out in Earth’s magnetotail.

Partners

APL, IGEP, IWF, LPP, CESR, LASP, NOAA, UCLA, U of Calgary, U of St. Petersberg Russia, MPAE, National Observatory of Athens, ISAS/JAXA, ESA/ESTEC, SECS,

Prinicipal Investigator

Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos

Team

THEMIS Team can be found here.

sponsor

NASA

Schedule

THEMIS was launched 2007. In 2010, two of its five spacecraft were repurposed as ARTEMIS and moved to a new location to study similar processes closer to the Moon.

Location

Magnetosphere