Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979sci...206..966n&link_type=abstract
Science, vol. 206, Nov. 23, 1979, p. 966-972. Research supported by the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie.
Physics
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Jupiter (Planet), Magnetic Measurement, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Bow Waves, Ganymede, Magnetopause, Magnetospheric Instability, Shock Waves, Solar Wind
Scientific paper
The Voyager 2 magnetic field experiment, for which the instrumentation is identical to that on Voyager 1, operated flawlessly throughout the second Jupiter encounter. The paper presents a brief overview of the results obtained to date on the Jovian magnetosphere, the bow shock, the magnetopause, and the extended magnetic tail. The results and the magnetic field geometry confirm the earlier conclusion from Voyager 1 that Jupiter has an enormous magnetic tail, approximately 300-400 Jupiter radii in diameter, trailing behind the planet with respect to the supersonic flow of the solar wind. Additional observations of the distortion of the inner magnetosphere by a concentrated plasma show a spatial merging of the equatorial magnetodisk current with the current sheet in the magnetic tail. Disturbances near Ganymede are discussed.
Acuña Mario Humberto
Behannon Kenneth W.
Burlaga Leonard Francis
Lepping Ronald P.
Ness Norman F.
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