Aurora Explorer - on tour!

主要目标： 1．在2012年6月的切尔滕纳姆科学节和2012年9月在阿伯丁的英国科学节上展出“星团：极光探索者”展览。2。利用星团太空任务和小行星作为“励志挂钩”，激发、激发和教育公众、家庭和学生了解地球的近太空环境。3．向广大观众展示星团空间任务的最新科学发现。4．鼓励科学家和公众之间的对话。5．与业余天文学界进行互动，就磁层和极光物理学等主题开展科学对话。2011 年，“星团：极光探索者”展览在英国皇家学会夏季展览 (RSSE) 上成功向约 14000 名观众展示。该展览庆祝了星团太空任务 10 周年，并通过来自六个不同机构的广泛展览，让公众了解了空间天气和极光物理学的重要性。我们的关键信息是： 1. 我们生活在一个保护性磁层中 - 一个磁屏蔽，可以保护我们和我们的技术免受危险的太阳粒子辐射2。英国的仪器正在组成欧洲航天局集群任务的四艘欧洲航天器上飞行。我们正在利用这些航天器来研究美丽的极光（北极光和南极光）背后的物理原理。在了解磁层、星团和极光的过程中，参观者还了解了电和磁、太阳系的运作方式以及它们对我们生活的影响。我们成功地在 2012 年 6 月的切尔滕纳姆科学节和 2012 年 9 月在阿伯丁举行的英国科学节上展出了“星团：极光探索者”。切尔滕纳姆科学节是英国最大的科学节之一，每年举办超过去年售出30000张门票。英国科学节是欧洲最大的科学、技术和工程庆典之一。去年约有15000人参观了这个节日。 “集群：极光探险家 - 巡演中！”这是与数以万计的潜在受众分享我们的科学的绝佳机会。我们的展览今年特别重要，因为太阳活动不断增加，2012 年初苏格兰就可以看到极光。此外，在英国科学节上，我们的展览将与英国天文学协会的年会同期举行，使我们有机会直接与业余天文学界接触。作为展览的一部分，我们希望展示“Planeterrella”，它已获得两个 STFC 小奖项的资助和支持。Planeterrella 是一个独特的项目在实验室真空室中重现极光的科学实验，还展示了磁化恒星和行星如何相互作用。 Planeterrella 是英国唯一的此类实验，因此游客可以观看独特的实验。我们还将展示专门为 RSSE 委托制作的独特的交互式电磁和机械磁球，并展示专门委托制作的星团任务和极光物理的电影和动画。这些电影是我们团队为英国皇家学会夏季展览制作的，非常棒，欧洲航天局将在今年维也纳 EGU 会议的展台上使用这些电影。我们特此申请资金，用于支付在切尔滕纳姆科学节和阿伯丁英国科学节上展示“星团：极光探索者”的费用。准备原始展览需要花费大量的时间、精力和资金，因此在切尔滕纳姆和阿伯丁重新展览将是最大化去年投资回报的一种方式，提供一种极其经济有效的方式向广大观众展示我们的科学。

The main aims:1. To exhibit the 'Cluster: Aurora Explorer' Exhibition at the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2012 and at theBritish Science Festival in Aberdeen in September 2012.2. To inspire, enthuse and educate the general public, families and pupils about the Earth's near-space environment usingthe Cluster space mission and the Planeterrella as 'inspirational hooks'.3. To present the latest scientific discoveries from the Cluster space mission to a wide general audience.4. To encourage a dialogue between scientists and the general public.5. To engage with the Amateur Astronomy community, commencing scientific diaolgues on topics such as magnetospheric andauroral physics.In 2011 the 'Cluster: Aurora Explorer' exhibit was successfully presented at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition (RSSE) to anaudience number of ~14000 people. The exhibit celebrated 10 years of the Cluster space mission, and engaged the public in the importance of space weather and auroral physics through a wide and extensive exhibit from six different institutes.Our key messages were: 1. We live in a protective magnetosphere - a magnetic shield that protects us and our technology from dangerous solar particle radiation2. UK instruments are flying on the four European spacecraft thatmake up the European Space Agency's Cluster Mission3. We are using those spacecraft to investigate the physics behind the beautiful Aurora - the northern and southern lights. In learning about the magnetosphere, Cluster and the Aurora, visitors also learnt about electricity and magnetism, the workings of the Solar system and how these have an effect on our lives.We have been successful in our bid to exhibit the 'Cluster: Aurora Explorer' at the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2012 andat the British Science Festival in Aberdeen in September 2012. The Cheltenham Science Festival is one Britain's largest sciencefestival with over 30000 tickets sold last year. The British Science Festival is one of Europe's largest celebrations of science,technology and engineering. Last year approximately 15000 people visited this festival. 'Cluster: Aurora Explorer - on tour!' isa fantastic opportunity to share our science with a potential audience of tens of thousands . Our exhibit is especially relevant thisyear, as solar activity is increasing and the aurora was visible from Scotland early in 2012. Furthermore at the British ScienceFestival our exhibit will be colocated with the annual conference of the British Astronomical Association giving us theopportunity to engage directly with the amateur astronomy community.As part of the exhibition we wish to present the 'Planeterrella', which has been funded and supported by two STFC small awards.The Planeterrella is a unique scientific experiment which reproduces the aurora in a laboratory vacuum chamber and alsodemonstrates how magnetized stars and planets interact with each other. The Planeterrella is the only one of its kind in the UKand so allows visitors to view a unique experiment. We will also be exhibiting unique, interactive, electromagnetic and mechanicalmagnetopsheres, commissioned especially for the RSSE and displaying specially commissioned movies and animations of theCluster mission and auroral physics will be played. These movies were made by our team for the Royal Society SummerExhibiton and are so good they will be used by European Space Agency on their stand at the EGU meeting in Vienna this year.We hereby apply for funds to cover the cost of exhibiting 'Cluster: Aurora Explorer' at the Cheltenham Science Festival and theBritish Science Festival in Aberdeen. A great deal of time, effort and funds, were associated with preparing the original exhibit,thus re-exhibiting in Cheltenham and Aberdeen will be a way of maximising the return on last years investments providing an extremely cost-effective way of presenting our science to an extensive audience.