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DMSP F18 Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation (SSIES) Thermal Plasma Analysis Package, Level 2 (L2), 1 s Data in CDF Format

Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

The Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation (SSIES) thermal plasma analysis package is a suite of instruments built by the Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and flown on a number of the DMSP satellites. SSIESS includes a Retarding Potential Analyzer (RPA), Ion Drift meter (IDM), scintillation meter, and Langmuir probe.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
Publisher NASA Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Data Services
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
Category Heliophysics
Public Access Level public
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Temporal 2009-10-22/2009-10-22

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