Confirmation and Extension of Magnetospheric Radar Observations at SURA

SURA磁层雷达观测的确认和扩展这项建议是向实现强大的苏联军事设施向地球空间环境和平研究（日地科学领域）过渡的第一步。我们设想，这项研究的结果将加强努力，为美国/俄罗斯/乌克兰联合开发磁测雷达设施提供重大的远程机会。此外，似乎有可能同样的设施可以作为一个强大的中间层-平流层-对流层（MST）设施。有强有力的证据表明，苏联研究人员通过磁层雷达的遥感直接探测到北极光的起源。这一区域以前只被几颗卫星探测过，由于航天器本身的一些限制，这些卫星在关键区域提供的数据不足。我们建议测试，并可能确认，这一重要的新工具，用于地面进入地球空间环境。

Confirmation and Extension of Magnetospheric Radar Observations at SURA This proposal is to initiate the first step toward realizing the transition of a powerful Soviet military facility to the peaceful study of the geospace environment, the domain of solar-terrestrial science. We envision that the results of this study will reinforce efforts towards a major long-range opportunity for joint US/Russia/Ukraine development of a magnetosheric radar facility. In addition, it seems possible that the same facility could be used as a powerful mesosphere-stratosphere-troposphere (MST) facility. Strong evidence exists that Soviet researchers directly detected, through remote sensing with a magnetospheric radar, the origin of the auroral borealis. This region has only been penetrated before by a few satellites which, due to some intrinsic limitations of spacecraft, provide inadequate data in the key regions. We propose to test, and potentially confirm, this important new tool for ground-based access to the geospace enviroment.