Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm31c..08k&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM31C-08
Physics
2700 Magnetospheric Physics (6939), 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 2790 Substorms
Scientific paper
Three years after the end of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and 2.5 years since the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn the two largest magnetospheres in our solar system begin to loose a few secrets but still hide a lot more. Nevertheless the magnetospheric results from those missions as well as from the earlier missions Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and Ulysses have changed dramatically our view and knowledge about the global configuration and the dynamics of those magnetospheres. Processes in the equatorial plasma sheets and in the magnetotails have been explored and are still explored in situ along the orbits of the spacecraft. It was found in both magnetospheres that reconnection and substorm-like processes as well as the interchange motion and injection events play a very important role to understand the transport of plasma and energetic particles. However, those results are still limited due to orbit restrictions of the missions or due to missing information from the instruments onboard, i.e. the charge states of energetic ions. The paper will show the latest flow results of the Jovian magnetosphere and a summary of the magnetospheric findings from the Cassini mission will be reviewed. Similarities and differences of the two magnetospheres are discussed, open questions will be addressed as well as expected results for the upcoming New Horizon Jupiter flyby will be given.
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