The STEREO Mission

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-V

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2. Foreword

   • C. T. Russell

   Pages 1-3

3. The STEREO Mission: An Introduction

   • M. L. Kaiser, T. A. Kucera, J. M. Davila, O. C. St. Cyr, M. Guhathakurta, E. Christian

   Pages 5-16

4. The STEREO Observatory

   • Andrew Driesman, Shane Hynes, George Cancro

   Pages 17-44

5. STEREO Space Weather and the Space Weather Beacon

   • D. A. Biesecker, D. F. Webb, O. C. St. Cyr

   Pages 45-65

6. Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI)

   • R. A. Howard, J. D. Moses, A. Vourlidas, J. S. Newmark, D. G. Socker, S. P. Plunkett et al.

   Pages 67-115

7. STEREO IMPACT Investigation Goals, Measurements, and Data Products Overview

   • J. G. Luhmann, D. W. Curtis, P. Schroeder, J. McCauley, R. P. Lin, D. E. Larson et al.

   Pages 117-184

8. The STEREO IMPACT Boom

   • Robert Ullrich, Jeremy McCauley, Paul Turin, Ken McKee, Bill Donokowski

   Pages 185-201

9. The STEREO/IMPACT Magnetic Field Experiment

   • M. H. Acuña, D. Curtis, J. L. Scheifele, C. T. Russell, P. Schroeder, A. Szabo et al.

   Pages 203-226

10. The IMPACT Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA)

    • J. -A. Sauvaud, D. Larson, C. Aoustin, D. Curtis, J. -L. Médale, A. Fedorov et al.

    Pages 227-239

11. The STEREO IMPACT Suprathermal Electron (STE) Instrument

    • R. P. Lin, D. W. Curtis, D. E. Larson, J. G. Luhmann, S. E. McBride, M. R. Maier et al.

    Pages 241-255

12. The Suprathermal Ion Telescope (SIT) for the IMPACT/SEP Investigation

    • G. M. Mason, A. Korth, P. H. Walpole, M. I. Desai, T. T. Von Rosenvinge, S. A. Shuman

    Pages 257-284

13. The Low-Energy Telescope (LET) and SEP Central Electronics for the STEREO Mission

    • R. A. Mewaldt, C. M. S. Cohen, W. R. Cook, A. C. Cummings, A. J. Davis, S. Geier et al.

    Pages 285-362

14. The Solar Electron and Proton Telescope for the STEREO Mission

    • R. Müller-Mellin, S. Böttcher, J. Falenski, E. Rode, L. Duvet, T. Sanderson et al.

    Pages 363-389

15. The High Energy Telescope for STEREO

    • T. T. von Rosenvinge, D. V. Reames, R. Baker, J. Hawk, J. T. Nolan, L. Ryan et al.

    Pages 391-435

16. The Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) Investigation on the STEREO Observatories

    • A. B. Galvin, L. M. Kistler, M. A. Popecki, C. J. Farrugia, K. D. C. Simunac, L. Ellis et al.

    Pages 437-486

17. S/WAVES: The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation on the STEREO Mission

    • J. L. Bougeret, K. Goetz, M. L. Kaiser, S. D. Bale, P. J. Kellogg, M. Maksimovic et al.

    Pages 487-528

18. The Electric Antennas for the STEREO/WAVES Experiment

    • S. D. Bale, R. Ullrich, K. Goetz, N. Alster, B. Cecconi, M. Dekkali et al.

    Pages 529-547

19. STEREO/Waves Goniopolarimetry

    • B. Cecconi, X. Bonnin, S. Hoang, M. Maksimovic, S. D. Bale, J. -L. Bougeret et al.

    Pages 549-563

20. Theoretical Modeling for the STEREO Mission

    • Markus J. Aschwanden, L. F. Burlaga, M. L. Kaiser, C. K. Ng, D. V. Reames, M. J. Reiner et al.

    Pages 565-604

C. T. Russell Originally published in the journal Space Science Reviews, Volume 136, Nos 1–4. DOI: 10. 1007/s11214-008-9344-1 © Springer Science+Business Media B. V. 2008 The Sun-Earth Connection is now an accepted fact. It has a signi cant impact on our daily lives, and its underpinnings are being pursued vigorously with missions such as the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, commonly known as STEREO. This was not always so. It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that Edward Sabine connected the 11-year geomagnetic cycle with Heinrich Schwabe’s deduction of a like periodicity in the sunspot record. The clincher for many was Richard Carrington’s sighting of a great whi- light are on the Sun, on September 1, 1859, followed by a great geomagnetic storm 18 hours later. But was the Sun-Earth Connection signi cant to terrestrial denizens? Perhaps in 1859 it was not, but a century later it became so. Beginning in the 1930’s, as electrical powergrids grew in size, powercompanies began to realize that they occasionally had power blackouts during periods of intense geomagnetic activity. This correlation did not appear to be suf ciently signi cant to bring to the attention of the public but during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), when geomagnetic activity was being scrutinized intensely, the occurrence of a large North American power blackout during a great magnetic storm was impossible to ignore.

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