Global plasma environment of Io as inferred from the Galileo plasma wave observations

Details Global plasma environment of Io as inferred from the Galileo plasma wave observations Global plasma environment of Io as inferred from the Galileo plasma wave observations

Sep 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997georl..24.2115l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 24, p. 2115

Physics

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Galileo Spacecraft, Plasma Waves, Plasmas (Physics), Radio Occultation, Extraterrestrial Environments, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Plasma Density, Wakes, Space Probes

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We take advantage of a partial and a total occultation of the jovian radio sources observed during the flyby of Io to characterize the plasma environment of this moon. We show that it presents a strong upstream/downstream asymmetry. A dense plasma structure (n greater than 5 x 104 cm-3) extends far from Io (at least 1000 km) in the wake direction whereas no extended dense region is found upstream. The dense region in the wake could correspond to a the stagnation region of the flow of the corotating plasma.

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