2.2.6 spase://CDPP/Instrument/AMDA/POLAR/MFE MFE Magnetic Fields Experiment 1996-013A-08 2016-09-20T21:10:13Z The Magnetic Field Experiment (MFE) on the POLAR spacecraft is designed to measure the vector magnetic field at the spacecraft location in three ranges: plus to minus 700 nanoTesla (nT), 5700 nT, and 47000 nT. MFE consists of two triaxial fluxgate magnetometer sensors mounted on a 6-meter boom with associated electronics inside the spacecraft. The use of two separate sensors provides redundancy, and their different locations along the boom (one ~7.2m from the spacecraft axis (at the boom end), and the other at ~5.2 m, provides a measure of the spacecraft contribution to the measured fields. spase://SMWG/Person/Christopher.T.Russell PrincipalInvestigator UCLA IGPP MFE description http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/polar/polardes.html NSSDC's Master Catalog http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1996-013A&ex=8 Information about the Magnetic Fields Experiment (MFE) experiment on the Polar mission. spase://SMWG/instrument/1996-013A-08 Magnetometer spase://CDPP/Observatory/AMDA/POLAR