Thomas E. Moore IMAGE LENA Lead
Investigator
Dr. Moore is the Head of the Interplanetary Physics
Branch in the
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center. His principal interests
are in the heating and acceleration of ionospheric
plasmas, their escape into space to form
planetary plasmaspheres, and in the further
acceleration of these plasmas to form unstable
plasma sheets and
diamagnetically-trapped ring currents. He has also
conducted active space plasma experiments to
explore plasma heating
phenomena. Dr. Moore is the lead investigator for
the IMAGE LENA instrument and has been involved
as a science investigator or project scientist in
investigations on a number of NASA suborbital,
space shuttle, and orbital missions, including the
Retarding Ion Mass Spectrometer (RIMS)
experiment on Dynamics Explorer-1 and the
Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment and Plasma
Source Instrument on Polar. Dr. Moore has served
on numerous committees and study teams,
including the NRC Space Studies Board Committee
on Solar and Space Physics, the NASA
Sun-Earth Connection Advisory Subcommittee, and
the NASA study teams for the Solar Probe and Inner
Magnetosphere Imager missions.
Academic background: B.S. in Physics, University of
New Hampshire, 1970;
M.A.T. in Education, University of New Hampshire,
1971;
Ph.D. in Astrogeophysics, Unversity of Colorado,
1978
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