INTERBALL

The INTERBALL Project is devoted to the detailed study of the energy, momentum and mass transfer in the critical regions of the solar wind/magnetosphere system. The Project consists of two pairs (satellite-subsatellite) at high altitude orbits: to 200 000 km for the Tail Probe pair and to 20 000 km for the Auroral Probe pair.
In each satellite pair the wave motions, plasma drifts and temporal bursts of plasma parameters can be distinguished from the crossings of the stable space structures in the magnetospheric plasma.

The combination of the data from the four satellites during the magnetic conjunctions between the TAIL and AURORAL probes improve the magnetospheric studies by the measurements of the time delays and other specific time/space variation between the phenomena in the outer magnetosphere and in the auroral acceleration region.
An important part of the INTERBALL Projects is the coordination with the ground-based measurements of magnetic variations, pulsations, optical auroral features, radar auroras, VLF emissions and auroral ionosphere features... etc.

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