Radio science with Voyager at Jupiter - Initial Voyager 2 results and a Voyager 1 measure of the Io torus

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Nov 1979

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Science, vol. 206, Nov. 23, 1979, p. 959-962. NASA-supported research.

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Jupiter (Planet), Radio Signals, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Atmospheric Attenuation, Io, Ionospheric Noise, Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Ionospheres, Plasma Density, Radio Occultation, Signal Reflection, Signal Transmission, Space Exploration, Transmission Efficiency, Turbulence Effects

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About 22 hours after its closest approach to Jupiter, Voyager 2 passed behind the planet as viewed from the earth. Although the spacecraft was geometrically occulted for nearly two hours, the radio links between it and the earth were maintained almost continuously because of the refraction of the signals in Jupiter's south polar atmosphere. A figure shows the plane-of-the-sky geometry of this grazing occultation and preliminary data on the intensity of the spacecraft radio signals as received by the tracking station at Goldstone, California. The intensity data indicate a classic atmospheric occultation profile and the effects of turbulence and ionospheric focusing and defocusing. Analysis of the dispersive ionospheric refraction data yields preliminary profiles for the topside ionosphere at 66.7 deg S (entry in the evening) and 50.1 deg S (exit in the morning) that are reversed with respect to corresponding Voyager 1 profiles in terms of plasma concentration at a fixed altitude. Preliminary reduction of the preencounter occultation of Voyager 1 by the Io torus gives an average plasma density of about 1000 e/cu cm.

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