Recent advances in planetary magnetism

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Jun 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978m%26p....18..427n&link_type=abstract

Moon and the Planets, vol. 18, June 1978, p. 427-439.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Lunar Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Terrestrial Planets, Earth Magnetosphere, Jupiter (Planet), Magnetically Trapped Particles, Mars (Planet), Mercury (Planet), Remote Sensors, Saturn (Planet), Space Probes, Uranus (Planet), Venus (Planet)

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During the past decade, significant advances in the in situ measurements of planetary magnetic fields have been made. The U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. have conducted spacecraft investigations of all the planets, from innermost Mercury out to Jupiter. Unexpectedly, Mercury was found to possess a global magnetic field but neither the Moon nor Venus do. The results at Mars are incomplete but if a global field exists, it is clearly quite weak. The main magnetic field of Jupiter has been measured directly for the first time and confirms, as well as augments appreciably, the past 2 decades of ground-based radio astronomical studies which provided indirect evidence of the field. Progress in developing analytically complete models of the dynamo process suggests a possible common origin for Mercury, earth and Jupiter.

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