Aurora over Kiruna, Swedish Lapland, March 2011. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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The roof of the optical laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Phyiscs, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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The All-Sky Camera at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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Aurora photographed with IRF's All-Sky Camera. Photo: IRF
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A dramatic aurora photographed with IRF's All-Sky Camera in Kiruna during the "Halloween Storm" on 30 October 2003. Photo: IRF |
An ALIS imager on the roof of the Optical Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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ALIS (Auroral Large Imaging System) consists of a number of light-sensitive imagers placed in a grid in northern Scandinavia to study the aurora. Here is the ALIS station in Abisko. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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Part of the auroral oval, imaged by IRF's instrument Pia on board the Swedish Astrid-2 satellite. Image: IRF
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The beam from IRF's lidar instrument (used to study aerosols and tropospheric ozone) over the main building at the Space Campus in Kiruna. Photo: IRF
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IRF's lidar instrument and the Ionosond Observatory at IRF in Kiruna. Photo: Uwe Raffalski, IRF
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The four Cluster satellites, launched in 2000, orbit the Earth in formation. IRF has identical instruments (the Electric Fields and Waves experiment) on board each of them. Image: European Space Agency, ESA.
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Open Day at the Space Campus in Kiruna. IRF participates in ESA's mission Mars Express. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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The Swedish Institute of Space Physics participates on the ESA mission Mars Express (launched in 2003) with the instrument ASPERA-3. Image: ESA
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IRF contributes with the particle instrument ASPERA-4 to the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission (launched in 2005). Image: ESA
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IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 for ESA's Venus Express mission in the Integration Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna. Photo: IRF
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Testing parts of a satellite instrument in the Integration Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
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IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 mounted on the European Space Agency's Venus Express satellite. Photo: IRF/ESA
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The Venus Express satellite undergoing vacuum testing. Photo: ESA
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Vibration testing of ESA's satellite Venus Express with IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 on board. Photo: ESA
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The Venus Express satellite (with IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 at bottom left) prior to launch in 2005. Photo: IRF
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IRF contributed to two instruments on ESA's lunar mission Smart-1. Image: ESA
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The space simulator at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Torbjörn Lövgren, IRF
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An engineer prepares the sensor SWIM for testing in IRF's Calibration Laboratory. SWIM was part of the SARA instrument on the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 (launched in 2008). Photo: IRF
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The SWIM sensor being tested in IRF's Calibration Laboratory. Photo: IRF
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IRF's instrument SARA for the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 (launched in 2008). Photo: IRF
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Professor Stas Barabash with IRF's instrument SARA mounted on the Indian lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 at ISRO in India. Photo: IRF
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Results from IRF's lunar instrument SARA were published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2009. Image: from Wieser et al., GRL, 2010
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IRF has a langmuir probe on board the NASA spacecraft Cassini which has been orbiting Saturn since 2000. Image: NASA
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IRF has two instruments on ESA's mission Rosetta (launched in 2004) to the comet 67P/Churyomov-Gerasimenko. Image: ESA
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IRF developed PRIMA for the Swedish satellite mission Prisma in 2010. Photo: IRF
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