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Design, Test, And Calibration Of The Utah State University Floating Potential Probe, Jessica D. Gregory
Design, Test, And Calibration Of The Utah State University Floating Potential Probe, Jessica D. Gregory
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The ionosphere is a conducting layer in the Earth's upper atmosphere and is the nearest naturally occurring plasma environment. Inherent to all plasma environments is an electric field. Currently, the double electric field probe is the most successful instrument for measuring the electric fields of space plasmas. Utah State University/Space Dynamics Lab has developed a double electric field probe, called the Floating Potential Probe (FPP), with a slightly different instrumentation approach than what has been done previously. The FPP is one component of a suite of instruments that launched in fall of 2007 from Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of …