Titan's ion exosphere observed from Voyager 1

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.1383h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Mar. 1, 1982, p. 1383-1394. NASA-supported research.

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Exosphere, Satellite Atmospheres, Space Plasmas, Titan, Earth Magnetosphere, Plasma Diagnostics, Positive Ions, Saturn Atmosphere, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Wakes, Saturn, Satellites, Titan, Exosphere, Observations, Voyager 1, Ions, Electrons, Plasma Science Instrument, Wakes, Plasmas, Characteristics, Density, Temperatures, Magnetosphere, Rotation, Models, Interactions, Comparisons, Hydrogen, Ionization, Spectrum, Flows, Velocity, Data, Magnetotail, Boundary Layers, Structure, Mass, Diagrams, Experiments, Equi

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The plasma wake surrounding Titan in Saturn's rotating magnetosphere is characterized by a plasma which is denser and cooler than the surrounding subsonic magnetospheric plasma, and which is produced by the deflection of magnetospheric plasma around Titan and the addition of exospheric ions picked up by the rotating magnetosphere. A resemblance to the interaction between the solar wind and Venus is shown for the case of ion pickup in the ion exosphere outside Titan's magnetic tail and ion flow within the boundaries of the tail as Saturn's rotating magnetosphere interacts with Titan. The boundary of the tail is indicated by a sharp reduction in the flux of high-energy electrons, which are removed by inelastic scattering with the atmosphere and centrifugal drift produced when the electrons traverse the magnetic field draped around Saturn.

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