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    • ICON The Far Ultra Violet Imaging Spectrograph Nightside Images

    Metadata Updated: October 23, 2025

    The FUV instrument takes 2D images of the Earth’s horizon in the Far ultraviolet. The imager is pointing approximately 90 degrees to the spacecraft motion, similar to looking out of the side window of a car as it drives down the road. Onboard electronics read the image 8 times per second and perform Time Delay Integration (TDI) to remove the motion-blur from the images. A turret is used to steer the field of view of the instrument left to right to ensure it always looks along the magnetic meridian (towards the magnetic pole).

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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 October 23, 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 October 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) Data Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://doi.org/10.48322/4vx2-1c67
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-10
    Category Heliophysics
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.48322/4vx2-1c67
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 450c9ab69a0ace42d7050674d5ae9da700214edd5eb184904e02d3d07e05db75
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2019-12-06/2019-12-06

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