2.2.6 spase://CDPP/Instrument/AMDA/STEREO-B/IMPACT/MAG MAG STEREO-B IMPACT Magnetometer 2009-05-20T21:10:12Z The magnetometer system is a simplified version of the magnetometers flown on Mars Global Surveyor and Lunar Prospector. It is a tri-axial flux gate design that will be mounted on the STEREO ~4m boom just inboard of the SWEA and STE instruments. The flux gate sensors use a ring core geometry, with magnetic cores consisting of molybdenum alloy. The units are compact, low power, and ultra-stable. To optimize sensitivity at the low field values to be found in interplanetary space, the magnetometer dynamic range is divided into 8 ranges that are automatically switched whenever the field being measured exceeds a predetermined level. The maximum range is sufficiently large to allow IMPACT MAG magnetic field measurements during the commissioning phase Earth orbits. The STEREO IMPACT/MAG Team spase://SMWG/Person/Janet.G.Luhmann PrincipalInvestigator spase://SMWG/Person/Christopher.T.Russell CoInvestigator spase://SMWG/Person/Mario.H.Acuna CoInvestigator spase://SMWG/Person/Adam.Szabo CoInvestigator STEREO/IMPACT Mission Site http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact/ NSSDC's Master Catalog http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=2006-047B-03 Information about the In-Situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT) experiment on the STEREO B mission. Magnetometer In-Situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT) Magnetometer on STEREO B spase://CDPP/Observatory/AMDA/STEREO-B