Beschreibung : The Explorer-class mother spacecraft, International Sun-Earth Explorer 2, was part of the mother/ daughter/ heliocentric mission (ISEE 1, ISEE 2, ISEE 3).
The purposes of the mission were:
(1) to investigate solar-terrestrial relationships at the outermost boundaries of the Earth`s magnetosphere,
(2) to examine in detail the structure of the solar wind near the Earth and the shock wave that forms the interface between the solar wind and the Earth`s magnetosphere,
(3) to investigate motions of and mechanisms operating in the plasma sheets, and
(4) to continue the investigation of cosmic rays and solar flare effects in the interplanetary region near 1 AU.
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