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[O02-P06] What do aurora researchers do?

★Invited Papers

*Mizuki Fukizawa¹, Kiyoka Murase², Masahisa Kato⁷, Yuri Ampuku³, Akira Kazama³, Shotaro Sakai³, Hiroyo Ohya⁴, Shin'ya Sakanaka⁵, Kazushi Asamura⁶, Young outreach activity STEPLE (1.National Institute of Polar Research, 2.The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 3.Tohoku University, 4.Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 5.Graduate school of International Resource Sciences, Akita University, 6.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 7.Kyoto University)

Keywords:Aurora, Space, Earth, Planet, Electromagnetism, Satellite

Many people may have the impression that the northern lights are beautiful lights that can be seen in cold places and that they are something you go to see as a tourist. In fact, however, auroras are generated when electrons in space fall into the Earth's atmosphere due to a complex interplay of various physical and chemical phenomena, and many researchers around the world are conducting research related to the aurora borealis. I would like to briefly explain the principle of the generation of auroras, which are also closely related to space, and introduce what exactly we are doing to study auroras. The presenter himself often travels to Alaska and Northern Europe to install aurora observation cameras, conduct radar observation experiments, launch aurora observation rockets, and analyze data acquired by satellites. I would also like to introduce how I spent my junior high school, high school, and university years in order to become an aurora researcher.
In addition to aurora researchers, researchers and graduate students from "STEPLE" (https:// sgepss.org/steple/), a young outreach group of the Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS, https://www.sgepss.org/sgepss/about_us/), will participate in the presentation. If you are interested in earth, planetary, and space science, not only aurora but also planets and satellites, please feel free to come to the front of the poster.