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Swedish Institute of Space Physics - Photo Gallery

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Aurora over Kiruna, Swedish Lapland, March 2011. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF	The roof of the optical laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Phyiscs, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF	The All-Sky Camera at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
Aurora photographed with IRF's All-Sky Camera. Photo: IRF	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
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	Part of the auroral oval, imaged by IRF's instrument Pia on board the Swedish Astrid-2 satellite. Image: IRF	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
IRF's lidar instrument and the Ionosond Observatory at IRF in Kiruna. Photo: Uwe Raffalski, IRF	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.	Open Day at the Space Campus in Kiruna. IRF participates in ESA's mission Mars Express. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics participates on the ESA mission Mars Express (launched in 2003) with the instrument ASPERA-3. Image: ESA	IRF contributes with the particle instrument ASPERA-4 to the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission (launched in 2005). Image: ESA	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
Testing parts of a satellite instrument in the Integration Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna. Photo: Rick McGregor, IRF	IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 mounted on the European Space Agency's Venus Express satellite. Photo: IRF/ESA	The Venus Express satellite undergoing vacuum testing. Photo: ESA
Vibration testing of ESA's satellite Venus Express with IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 on board. Photo: ESA	The Venus Express satellite (with IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 at bottom left) prior to launch in 2005. Photo: IRF	IRF contributed to two instruments on ESA's lunar mission Smart-1. Image: ESA
The space simulator at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, in Kiruna. Photo: Torbjörn Lövgren, IRF	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	The SWIM sensor being tested in IRF's Calibration Laboratory. Photo: IRF
IRF's instrument SARA for the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 (launched in 2008). Photo: IRF	Professor Stas Barabash with IRF's instrument SARA mounted on the Indian lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 at ISRO in India. Photo: IRF	Results from IRF's lunar instrument SARA were published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2009. Image: from Wieser et al., GRL, 2010
IRF has a langmuir probe on board the NASA spacecraft Cassini which has been orbiting Saturn since 2000. Image: NASA	IRF has two instruments on ESA's mission Rosetta (launched in 2004) to the comet 67P/Churyomov-Gerasimenko. Image: ESA	IRF developed PRIMA for the Swedish satellite mission Prisma in 2010. Photo: IRF

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