DESCRIPTION |
The Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) is a symmetric, hemispheric electrostatic analyzer
designed to measure the energy and angular distributions of solar wind electrons and ionospheric
photoelectrons in the Mars environment. The instrument is a collaboration between the Space
Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB-SSL) and the Institut de
Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) in Toulouse, France. SWEA is closely based on
two instruments of the same name currently operating on the twin STEREO spacecraft.
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