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Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE)

The TRICE mission's scientific goals were aimed at distinguishing between signatures of pulsed reconnection versus those of steady reconnection, as well as investigating ionospheric cusp electrodynamics.

Launch Date
November 2007
Class
Flight Project
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TRICE mission will determine if cusp reconnection signatures indicate spatially localized (called ?patchy?) or temporally localized (?bursty?) reconnection, or both.

Related Publications

2024. "New Regime of Inertial Alfvén Wave Turbulence in the Auroral Ionosphere.", Physical Review Letters, 133 (4): 045201 [10.1103/physrevlett.133.045201] [Journal Article/Letter]