JMEX: The Jupiter Magnetospheric EXplorer

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May 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsm41a..02s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SM41A-02

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6030), 5737 Magnetospheres (2756), 6218 Jovian Satellites

Scientific paper

This poster describes a Small Explorer (SMEX) mission which recently completed its Phase A study and is awaiting selection decisions. The Jupiter Magnetospheric Explorer - an Earth-orbiting observatory - will conduct an unprecedented global study of Jupiter's dynamic magnetosphere, allowing an in-depth comparison with Earth's magnetosphere. Its instruments offer imaging and spectroscopy of the UV emissions from Jupiter's aurora, Io's atmosphere, and the plasma torus. Just as long-term, global observations of the Earth's aurora and the solar wind-driven magnetosphere have revealed the workings of the terrestrial magnetosphere; continuous observations of Jupiter's UV emissions will reveal the nature, variability, and interrelationships of the underlying Jovian plasma processes. Quantitative comparison of plasma processes in the giant, rotation- dominated magnetosphere of Jupiter with that of Earth extends and tests our understanding of Sun-Earth Connections.

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