The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission studies how mass and energy move through the near-Earth space environment to determine the physical processes initiating auroras. It was originally comprised of five satellites spread out in Earth’s magnetotail. Two of the satellites were redirected to a lunar orbit and are operating as the THEMIS-ARTEMIS mission.
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