Confirmation and Extension of Magnetospheric Radar Observations at SURA

确认和延长SURA的磁层雷达观测这一提议是朝着实现苏联强大军事设施向地球空间环境和平研究过渡的第一步，地球空间环境是日地科学领域。我们设想，这项研究的结果将加强努力，争取美国/俄罗斯/乌克兰联合开发磁层雷达设施的重大长期机会。此外，似乎可以将同一设施用作强大的中间层-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了北极光的起源。这一区域以前只有几颗卫星穿透，由于航天器的一些固有限制，这些卫星在关键区域提供的数据不够充分。我们建议测试并可能确认这一重要的地面进入地球空间环境的新工具。

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.