A view of Saturn's magnetosphere from the Cassini Magnetic Field Observations

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2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033)

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Observations of the magnetosphere of Saturn from the Pioneer and Voyager era left us with a picture which best described its dynamics as being intermediate between those of the Earth and Jupiter, with solar wind driven effects being as important as rotationally driven dynamics. Observations from the magnetometer instrument onboard Cassini during the first 2.5 years of its orbital tour are painting a rather different picture, with a magnetosphere being revealed which is much more suggestive of a Jupiter type environment. Some of the phenomena to be discussed which reveal this similarity include: magnetopause compressibility; reconnection in the tail, the magnetodisc, bent back field lines; rotationally periodic current sheet encounters, interchange like flux tubes, inward moving flux-tubes and ion cyclotron waves.

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