Magnetic fields and charged particles around major planets and their satellites

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Dec 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981rspta.303..247k&link_type=abstract

(Royal Society, Discussion on Planetary Exploration, London, England, Nov. 4, 5, 1980.) Royal Society (London), Philosophical Tr

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Charged Particles, Earth Magnetosphere, Gas Giant Planets, Natural Satellites, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Io, Jupiter Atmosphere, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Saturn Atmosphere, Solar Wind, Voyager Project, Planets, Satellites, Magnetic Fields, Charged Particles, Jupiter, Saturn, Magnetospheres, Io, Diagrams, Comparisons, Models, Emissions, Electrons, Plasma Torus, Spacecraft Observations, Radiation, Pioneer Missions, Plasma, Voyager Missions, Magnetic Properties

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It is noted that whereas Jupiter and Saturn have magnetospheres whose large-scale structure can be understood by analogy with earth, the ways in which the magnetospheres differ are of great interest. At earth, large-scale processes are dominated by convective flows of plasma driven by the solar wind. At Jupiter, centrifugal effects that are driven by planetary rotation are critical. Magnetic particle sources include not only the ionosphere and solar wind (as at earth) but also satellites and rings. The internal planetary magnetic moments controlling the scale of the magnetosphere differ by orders of magnitude between Jupiter and earth. It is pointed out that where the magnetic moments have been modeled from spacecraft data, the restricted spatial sampling has biased the results and limited confidence in details of the models. Voyager data suggest that Io may itself be magnetized and surrounded by an entirely unfamiliar type of magnetosphere.

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