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World Day Campaign

PFSR and RISR-N participate in first optical campaign to use all high-latitude ISRs, coordinated by Ph.D. candidate Magnar Johnsen of U. Tromsø (currently at Boston U.). PFSR and RISR-N also operate for 6-day WD run to study temporal and latitudinal behavior of electron density changes, particularly near the plasmaspheric boundary layer.

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10-day World Day Run

PFISR and RISR-N operate for 10-day WD run to study equinoctal neutral wind reversal. PFISR continues to operate in low-duty cycle mode when not in use for other runs.

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RISR-N First Light

RISR-N First Light

RISR-N (the north-looking AMISR face at Resolute, Canada) completes engineering testing and calibration, and is fully operational with 128 panels. Data show interesting F-region structure during very quiet times.

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