Physics
Scientific paper
May 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992esasp.344..131p&link_type=abstract
In ESA, Solar Physics and Astrophysics at Interferometric Resolution p 131-138 (SEE N93-10901 01-90)
Physics
Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Composition, High Resolution, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Magnetospheres, Remote Sensing, Exosphere, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Planetary Rotation, Plasmas (Physics), Solar Wind, Thermosphere
Scientific paper
A review of planetary magnetospheres, which depend upon a few key parameters such as the magnetic dipole strength, the planetary rotation rate, and the strength of the internal plasma sources, is given. Present knowledge of the large scale circulation of magnetospheric plasma is rather poor. It is shown how understanding of their dynamics could benefit from high spectral and spatial resolution sensing in the UV to near IR range. The planetary atmospheric constituents are also observable in this wavelength range from the cloud level to the planetary exospheres. New insights on the composition (and the atmospheric formation and evolution processes), the large scale circulation patterns, the stratospheric dynamics and chemistry, and the interaction of the upper stratospheres-exospheres with their plasma environment, which can be derived from high resolution observations, are discussed, including scans of the planetary limb with a resolution better than the scale height of the atmospheric constituents.
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