SATELLITE EXPERIMENTS SIMULTANEOUS WITH ANTARCTIC MEASUREMENTS (SESAME)


Welcome to the SESAME page of the Upper Atmospheric Science Division of the British Antarctic Survey.

Satellite Experiments Simultaneous with Antarctic Measurements (SESAME) is one of the four ground-based programmes within the NASA/ISAS Global Geospace Science (GGS) mission, itself part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) programme.

The scientific objectives of SESAME are carefully selected to make an invaluable contribution to the GGS mission by capitalising on the unique geophysical advantages of Antarctica for geospace research.

The experimental programme is centred at Halley (76 S, 27 W) but also utilises automatic geophysical observatories located poleward of Halley.

The data products will be supplied as key parameters to the GGS experimenters on a routine basis.

Please click on the hotlinks for more information on each point. If you have any further queries about SESAME please contact J. R. Dudeney.

The material presented on the SESAME pages is adapted from a paper by Dudeney et al. (1995). Reprinted by permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers. All rights reserved. Copyright 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers. No part of this material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.


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