Spaceship Earth is a network of neutron monitors designed to measure the flux of cosmic rays arriving at Earth from different directions. For the 1962 Bruce Conner film see Cosmic Ray (film Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on [1] All the 12 member neutron monitor stations are located at high (Northern or Southern) latitude, which makes their detecting directions more precise, and their energy responses uniform. Their combined signals provide a real-time measurement of the three-dimensional distribution of cosmic rays, mainly galactic cosmic rays as well as solar energetic particles during the most intense solar events. Galactic cosmic rays ( GCRs) consist of those Cosmic rays that enter the solar system from the outside Solar Energetic Particles are high-energy particles coming from the Sun which had been first observed in the early 1940s Analyses of these data have applications in space weather studies. Space weather is the concept of changing environmental conditions in Outer space.
Locations
Spaceship Earth is a multinational collaboration, with participating institutions from the United States of America, Russia, Canada, and Australia.
- The Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware, U. The University of Delaware ( UD) is the largest University in the U S. A. , operates the stations at McMurdo (Antarctica), Thule (Greenland), Inuvik (Northwest Territories, Canada), Fort Smith (Northwest Territories, Canada), Peawanuck (Ontario, Canada), and Nain (Labrador, Canada). McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 2200 Qaanaaq (qaːnaːq is a town and Municipality in northwestern Greenland. Inuvik, (place of man is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada and is the administrative centre for the Inuvik Region. Fort Smith ( Slavey language: Thebacha "beside the rapids" is a Town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories Peawanuck is an isolated Cree community in the Kenora District Ontario, Canada Nain or Naina is the northernmost town of any size in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located
- IZMIRAN and the Polar Geophysical Institute, Russia, operate the Russian stations of Apatity, Barentsburg, Cape Schmidt, Norilsk, and Tixie Bay. Barentsburg (Баренцбург is the second largest settlement on Svalbard, with about 400 inhabitants almost entirely Russians and Ukrainians. Norilsk (Нори́льск is a major city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
- The Australian Antarctic Division, Australia, operates the station at Mawson (Antarctica). The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD is a division of the Department of the Environment Water Heritage and the Arts. Mawson Station is a permanent base in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD
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References
- ^ Bieber, John W. ; et al. (2004). "Spaceship Earth Observations of the Easter 2001 Solar Particle Event". The Astrophysical Journal 601: L103–L106. doi:. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.
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