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  <Version>2.2.6</Version>
  <Observatory>

    <ResourceID>spase://CDPP/Observatory/AMDA/Cluster3</ResourceID>

    <ResourceHeader>

      <ResourceName>Cluster 3</ResourceName>

      <AlternateName>Samba</AlternateName>

      <AlternateName>Cluster 2/FM7 (Samba)</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>2000-041A</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>FM7</AlternateName>

      <AlternateName>Cluster FM7 (Samba)</AlternateName>

      <ReleaseDate>2016-10-04T15:23:52Z</ReleaseDate>
      <Description>
        Cluster II is part of an international collaboration to investigate the physical connection between the Sun and Earth. Flying in a tetrahedral (triangular pyramid) formation, the four spacecraft collect the most detailed data yet on small-scale changes in near-Earth space and the interaction between the charged particles of the solar wind and Earth's atmosphere. This enables scientists to build a three-dimensional model of the magnetosphere and to better understand the processes taking place inside it.      

      </Description><Acknowledgement>C. Philippe Escoubet (ESA Project Scientist)</Acknowledgement>

        <Contact>
          <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Christophe.Philippe.Escoubet</PersonID>
          <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>

        </Contact>        

        <InformationURL>
          <Name>Fact Sheet of the Cluster mission</Name>
          <URL>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=47348</URL>
          <Description>Information about the Cluster spacecraft</Description>
        </InformationURL>

      <PriorID>spase://SMWG/Observatory/Cluster2-Samba</PriorID>
    </ResourceHeader>
    <ObservatoryGroupID>spase://CDPP/Observatory/AMDA/Cluster</ObservatoryGroupID>
    <Location>

       <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere</ObservatoryRegion>

      <ObservatoryRegion>Heliosphere.NearEarth</ObservatoryRegion>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere.Main</ObservatoryRegion>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosheath</ObservatoryRegion>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere.Polar</ObservatoryRegion>
    </Location>

    <OperatingSpan>
      <StartDate>2000-12-01T00:00:00</StartDate>
      <Note>Start of full orbit coverage: 2002-06-01T00:00:00</Note>
      <Note>C3 spacecraft tilt by 40° during one month: 2008-05-01T00:00:00</Note>
    </OperatingSpan>

  </Observatory>
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