Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992sci...257.1535g&link_type=abstract
Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 257, no. 5076, Sept. 11, 1992, p. 1535-1539. Research supported by SNSF and BMFT.
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Jupiter (Planet), Mass Spectrometers, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Composition, Solar Wind, Ulysses Mission, Io, Oxygen Ions, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Solar Planetary Interactions, Space Plasmas, Sulfur
Scientific paper
The ion composition in the Jovian environment was investigated with the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer on board Ulysses. A hot tenuous plasma was observed throughout the outer and middle magnetosphere. In some regions two thermally different components were identified. Oxygen and sulfur ions with several different charge states, from the volcanic satellite Io, make the largest contribution to the mass density of the hot plasma, even at high latitude. Solar wind particles were observed in all regions investigated. Ions from Jupiter's ionosphere were abundant in the middle magnetosphere, particularly in the high-latitude region on the dusk side, which was traversed for the first time.
Balsiger Hans
Fisk Len A.
Galvin Antoinette B.
Geiss Johannes
Gliem Fritz
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