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November 14, 2003: THEMIS has passed its
Preliminary Design Review! This means that the mission is on schedule,
allowing us to begin lesson plans, select schools for our GEONS
project, and allowing engineers
to begin building instruments.
March 20, 2003: A new NASA mission has been selected to solve the
mystery of what triggers brilliant and rapidly moving auroral forms
to erupt from a slowly moving single auroral band across the sky.
The NASA Mission, "Time History of Events and Macroscale
Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)" will send five satellites
to space, twenty cameras to Canada and Alaska, and thirty magnetometers
over the Northern U.S. and Canada in order to solve this mystery.
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University
of Colorado (press release)
Ottawa Citizen
