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The end of the IMAGE-mission was officially declared after the loss of communication with the spacecraft on December 18, 2005. Details can be found in the NASA press release.
IMAGE-FUV was able to observe a good part of the solar eclipse on December 4, 2002. You can link to an overview of raw data and a movie of WIC-observations or movie of SI-13-observations.
Here are several images and movies of FUV observations which were presented at the 2000 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The movies summarise observations during several major geomagnetic storms. The names indicate the year and the number of the day-of-year when these storms occurred.
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June 13, 2000: On June,1 WIC observed an auroral substorm in the northern hemisphere. At the same time, an all-sky camera at South Pole observed the substorm in the southern hemisphere. These two images were taken almost simultaneously (32 seconds apart). During the substorm expansion, the aurora has moved that much poleward, that it came into the field of view of the all-sky camera. Overview plots of our all-sky data from South Pole together with more description can be found at our web page of the Atmospheric Emissions Group. The right all-sky image was taken at 427.8 nm and the left was taken at 630.0 nm.

June 9, 2000: Here is our complete movie of WIC images in MPEG format . The time period covers 15:40 UT - 19:25 on June 8. All the previous problems with some bad parts in the images were solved.

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June 8, 2000: A CME from the sun caused disturbances of the geomagnetic field and created nice and strong auroral displays. This is an example from today at 17:00 UT recorded by WIC. We will produce a movie which summarizes a longer time period. So please stay tuned and watch.

May 26, 2000: We could record a very clear example of different proton and electron induced aurora. The image shows the SI-12 channel to the left and the SI-13 channel in the center. The overlay to the right shows green where the electron aurora dominates, red where the proton aurora dominates, and yellow where both are comparable.

To the right there is another example from June 8 with proton aurora in red, and electron aurora in yellow.

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May 24, 2000: Data are now coming in on a regular basis. This is a WIC image of a part of the auroral oval when the satellite was at a geocentric distance of 25886 km. The thickness of the smallest structures is 120 km (FWHM).

May 12, 2000: After an update of our flight software and some corrections to the TDI process we get good WIC images. Today (17:50 PDT) WIC observed the first auroral substorm. This false-colored image was taken later in the development of the bright aurora. The bright "blobs" are background stars of the southern constellations Crux and Centaurus.

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May 2, 2000: This is the first good image from SI13. We look at the dayside of the Earth and this is still a raw image. Today we even saw the first aurora with WIC, but we save this image for the next news.

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April 30, 2000: This is the first measurement of GEO. The peak at about 60 degrees is caused by the bright geocorona emission close to Earth.

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April 26, 2000: All instruments were turned on. This is the "First light image of WIC".

April 25, 2000: The high voltage to GEO was turned on. All three GEO tubes measured signatures of the geocorona. At 2500 V a plateau in the count rate was reached.
April 24, 2000: The RPI antennas are deployed to 125.3 m (final will be 250 m). All instruments will be turned back on and first tests of high voltage operation for FUV are planned to start on April 25, 02:00 am EDT.
April 15, 2000: A last test of FUV functionality was successful. All instruments were then turned off. The spacecraft is spinning up.

April 4, 2000: This is a display of our housekeeping data for April 4, 2000. The voltages and currents are shown in the left part, the right part contains the present temperatures. The lower right part shows that the WIC and SI doors are open now. The other image shows sun sensor readings. The satellite is spinning at about 2.1 rpm and we see 4 sun readings in 2 minutes.

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April 3, 2000: FUV is running in SAFE mode without high voltage and just transmitting housekeeping data. All currents and voltages are nominally. The temperatures are around 5 degrees C.
March 27, 2000: FUV was turned on and performed the first functional test without high voltage. All systems work nominally.
Successful launch on March 25, 20:34 GMT.
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Important dates for FUV

Latest news from FUV

You can find papers describing the FUV instrument at our publication list.

The FUV instrument on the instrument deck of the satellite.

If you are interested, there are more pictures of FUV.
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