Cluster
Overview:
Cluster is currently investigating the Earth's magnetic environment and its interaction with the solar wind in three dimensions. Science output from Cluster greatly advances our knowledge of space plasma physics, space weather and the Sun-Earth connection and has been key in improving the modeling of the magnetosphere and understanding its various physical processes.
Objectives:
The Cluster mission is designed to study the small-scale structures and macroscopic turbulence in three dimensions that arise in many places in the magnetosphere. These regions are predominantly:
- the solar wind and bow shock
- the magnetopause
- the polar caps
- the magnetotail, and
- the auroral zones.
Experiments:
- FGM Fluxgate Magnetometer
- EDI Electron Drift Instrument
- ASPOC Active Spacecraft Potential Control Experiment
- STAFF Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuation experiment
- EFW Electric Field and Wave experiment
- DWP Digital Wave Processing experiment
- WHISPER Waves of High frequency and Sounder for Probing of Electron density by Relaxation experiment
- WBD Wide Band Data experiment
- PEACE Plasma Electron and Current experiment
- CIS Cluster Ion Spectrometry experiment
- RAPID Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors
- WEC Wave Experiment Consortium
Resources
The CAA (Cluster Active Archive) is a depository of processed and validated hig-resolution Cluster data, raw data. processing software, calibration data, documentation and other value added products. Hosted by ESTEC, restricted access.
AMDA (Automated Multi Dataset Analysis), a generic tool automated event search and characterisation, catalogue generation and exploitation and automated sub-database conditional extraction of Space Physics data hosted by CDPP/CESR Toulouse.
CDAWEB - Java-based interface-archive for ACE, CRRES, Cluster, DMSP, Equator-S, FAST, Genesis, Geotail, IMAGE, IMP, Interball, OMNI , Pioneer, Polar, SAMPEX, SNOE, SOHO, THEMIS, TIMED, Ulysses, Voyager, Wind and other spacecraft missions.
