Plasma circulation in magnetized planet magnetospheres

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2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 2760 Plasma Convection (2463), 2788 Magnetic Storms And Substorms (7954), 5737 Magnetospheres (2756)

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To motivate detailed discussions of recent discoveries at Saturn by the Cassini mission, global plasma circulation at Earth and at outer planet gas giant planets is reviewed here. Since Saturn has often been viewed, prior to Cassini, as being transitional between magnetospheres whose circulations are driven by the solar wind and those driven by planetary rotation, there is naturally great interest in how the relative importance of these two drivers is established at the various magnetospheres. But Saturn stimulates interest in another aspect of plasma circulation within planetary magnetospheres, the perhaps intrinsically dynamic nature of the plasma motions. At Earth it is common to think of global plasma convection as being somehow separable from dynamic injection phenomena, even while it is thought that the conditions that engender strong convection also tend to engender injection phenomena. We present longstanding evidence that the convection and the dynamic injections are not just circumstantially but in fact are physically tied together. We argue here on the basis of observations throughout the solar system that dynamic injection phenomena are universal to robust plasma circulation within magnetized planet magnetospheres.

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