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Among various techniques to monitor the polar cusp region, the best available way is by using several low-altitude satellites all on the noon-midnight polar orbit to perform particle precipitation measurements. Fortunately, such an opportunity occurred in the USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). Two identical satellites had circular orbits in the noon-midnight meridian at ∼ 840 km altitude. Thus the polar cusp regions over both the northern and southern polar regions could be monitored with a temporal resolution of at least once every hour per hemisphere. In this paper, we will summarize recent findings of polar cusp characteristics and dynamics based on DMSP observations.
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Meng, CI., Candidi, M. (1985). Polar Cusp Features Observed By DMSP Satellites. In: Holtet, J.A., Egeland, A. (eds) The Polar Cusp. NATO ASI Series, vol 145. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5295-9_13
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