This movie depicts the changing ion charge-state distributions observed by Geotail/STICS over a one-month interval at a 12-hour time resolution. Data gaps show up as empty frames.

Download this movie: sticsJan99.mov

Download a sample text file, the Java 1.4.x executable phaMatrix.jar file, and instructions: phaMatrix.tar.gz

The text files can be found in the year-month-day_of_year subdirectories (for example: <2004/Jun/DOY157/stics_04157a.txt>) of this directory http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/Geotail/summary_images/ at the EPIC website.

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