These plots provide overviews of TIMAS data acquired on all apogee passes and a few perigee passes.

• The four color panels show two-dimensional cuts of the 3-dimensional distributions of H+, O+, He+ and He++.
  • The energy range over which the data have been integrated is displayed at the bottom of the plot. It is typically 0.9 to 25 keV/e. Some data plots however, were made using alternative energy ranges.
  • The coordinate system in which the 2-d cut is made is indicated by the subscripts of the H, O, He labels. Most plots have been made using the FA/(Field aligned) coordinate system. The X cut in FA cordinates is made in the plane defined by the magnetic field direction and the spacecraft defined X axis.
  • The temporal averaging interval (indicated at the bottom left of the plot) is typically 8 spins (48 seconds) for high altitude intervals and 4 spins (24 seconds) for intervals that include perigee.
  • The number flux for each energy and time is encoded using the color bar on the right.
• Information about the orbit in tabular format at the bottom includes
  • UT: Universal time in hours:minutes
  • R: Geocentric distance of Polar in units of Earth radii
  • L: McIlwain L parameter at the location of Polar
  • EDMLT: Eccentric Dipole Magnetic Local Time at the location of Polar in hh:mm format
  • MAGLAT: Geomagnetic Latitude at the location of Polar in degrees.
  • INVLAT: Invariant Latitude at the location of Polar in degrees.
  • LT: Local Time in HH:MM format at the Polar location.