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Helios 2 E3 Magnetometer (Ness et al.) 6-sec Data

Metadata Updated: February 20, 2026

Task of the HELIOS mission was the exploration of the inner heliosphere, inside the Earth's orbit to 0.3 AU. The Rome-GSFC magnetic field experiment has been a joint venture of an italian group (University of Rome and CNR/Istituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario, Frascati) and an american group of NASA/Goddard Space Fligth Center, under the responsibility of F. Mariani and N.F.Ness, respectively. A description of the experiment can be found in the NASA-GSFC report X-692-75-112 (1975), by C. Scearce et al. The instrument is a dual configuration of two tri-axial fluxgate magnetometers operating at four different sensitivities (from 0.84 to 0.03 nT). The time resolution, depending the operation mode, telemetry format, and bit rate, for most cases varied from 0.07 to 1.5 seconds. The present data set contains six-second averages of the magnetic field elements in solar-ecliptic (SE) spacecraft-centered coordinates. Data are stored in files on a daily basis. File names are hNYYDDD.asc, with N the Helios number (1 or 2), YY the year (last two digits), and DDD the day of year (1 = January 1st). For instance, h276105.asc is the file with Helios 2 data for day 105, 1976.

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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 April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 20, 2026

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 20, 2026
Publisher NASA Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) Data Services
Maintainer
Identifier https://doi.org/10.48322/zxcr-jp63
Data Last Modified 2026-02-16
Category Heliophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.48322/zxcr-jp63
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 01c8ca392944e9b5f5acc502f5636e6e2450b925222c4d37aa9077c17577be30
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1981-06-16/1997-12-15

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