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6.1.5 Response to the South Atlantic Anomaly

  One piece of good news was that the IMAPS detector shows no detectable response to the high radiation levels in the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). We had taken elaborate precautions in our mission planning to avoid having valuable exposures compromised by SAA passages. Some extra exposures taken during these passages revealed that those measures were unnecessary.




12/15/1998