Jupiter's magnetic tail: Voyager 1

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Jul 1979

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Jupiter (Planet), Magnetic Field Configurations, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetometers, Planetary Magnetospheres, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Solar Wind

Scientific paper

Magnetic field observations by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during the outbound traversal of the Jovian magnetosphere in March 1979 suggest the detection of an extended magnetic tail, which has been formed by the solar wind interaction with the planetary field. The apparent diameter of the tail is 300-400 times the radius of Jupiter but its length is not measured. When combined with the GSFC O4 model of the planetary field, this magnetosphere topology leads to polar cap auroral zones approximately 20 deg in diameter, considerably smaller than earth's. The northern zone is found to be highly eccentric, encircling neither the rotational pole nor the magnetic pole of Jupiter, and limited to System III (1965) longitudes approximately 133 deg to 190 deg and latitudes approximately 62 deg to 82 deg.

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