Similarities and Differences of Transport in the Terrestrial and Jovian Environments

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm22b..05k&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM22B-05

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2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6030), 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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Jupiter's magnetosphere differs from the terrestrial magnetosphere in ways that critically modify the transport of plasma through the system. Of great consequence is the fact that Jupiter's moon Io provides a source of heavy ion plasma deep within the magnetosphere. The rapid rotation of the planet subjects the plasma to large rotational accelerations. Interchange instability is of little consequence at Earth but is identified at Jupiter and may be of critical importance in transporting Jovian plasma. Conservation of angular momentum causes the plasma to slow its angular speed with outward motion and this drives currents that couple the equatorial magnetosphere to the auroral zone, producing an aurora with very different sources from those familiar at Earth. The gargantuan scale of the magnetosphere affects the conservation of adiabatic invariants, with time scales of planetary rotation short or of order of the bounce time of thermal plasma. This feature of the magnetosphere results in strong local time-dependent structure. We will discuss these and other aspects of the comparison of the two magnetospheres.

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