Instrument Overview =================== The cosmic ray telescope used for this experiment was also designed to monitor solar and galactic cosmic rays and track the twisting high energy particles from the Sun. The instrument can determine which of the nuclei of the ten lightest elements make up these cosmic ray particles. Before saturation by radiation, the cosmic ray telescope measured high energy particles in Jupiter's radiationbelts.
The instrument consists of three, three-element, solid-state telescopes. The high energy telescope measures the flux of protons between 56 and 800 MeV. The medium energy telescope measures protons with energies between 3 and 22 MeV, and identifies the ten elements from hydrogen to neon. The low energy telescope measures the flux of electrons between .05 and 1 MeV, and of protons between .05 and 20MeV.
['Instrument Overview' was adapted from FIMMELETAL pp. 52-53.]
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Instrument Overview =================== The cosmic ray telescope used for this experiment was also designed to monitor solar and galactic cosmic rays and track the twisting high energy particles from the Sun. The instrument can determine which of the nuclei of the ten lightest elements make up these cosmic ray particles. Before saturation by radiation, the cosmic ray telescope measured high energy particles in Jupiter's radiationbelts.
The instrument consists of three, three-element, solid-state telescopes. The high energy telescope measures the flux of protons between 56 and 800 MeV. The medium energy telescope measures protons with energies between 3 and 22 MeV, and identifies the ten elements from hydrogen to neon. The low energy telescope measures the flux of electrons between .05 and 1 MeV, and of protons between .05 and 20MeV.
['Instrument Overview' was adapted from FIMMELETAL pp. 52-53.]
External Reference
Fimmel, R.O., W. Swindell, E. Burgess, Pioneer Odyssey, NASA SP-396,
Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, Washington, D.C., 1977.
Trainor, J.H., F.B. McDonald, B.J. Teegarden, W.R. Webber, and E.C.
Roelof, Energetic particles in the Jovian magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res.,
79, 3600, 1974.