IMP 8 LANL: Hourly Solar Wind Plasma Averages

Hourly averaged solar wind plasma parameters collected by the IMP 8 satellite. The dataset is provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was last updated on March 13, 2026. The data is available in BIN and HTML file formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling solar wind propagation based on hourly plasma parameter averages.
• Correlating solar wind conditions with geomagnetic activity indices.
• Analyzing long-term trends in solar wind properties from satellite observations.

Strengths

• Data originates from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• Last updated on March 13, 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the IMP 8 satellite.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 06:29:54.741384