Back to Search
Start Over
The low energy plasma in the Uranian magnetosphere
- Source :
- Advances in Space Research. 7:237-241
- Publication Year :
- 1987
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1987.
-
Abstract
- The Plasma Science experiment on Voyager 2 detected a magnetosphere filled with a tenuous plasma, rotating with the planet. Temperatures of the plasma, composed of protons and electrons, ranged from 10 eV to about 1 keV. The sources of these protons and electrons are probably the ionosphere of Uranus or the extended neutral hydrogen cloud surrounding the planet. As at earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, there is an extended magnetotail with a central plasma sheet. Although similar in global structure to the magnetospheres of these planets, the large angle between the rotation and magnetic axes of the planet and the orientation of the rotation axis with respect to the solar wind flow make the Uranian magnetosphere unique.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Atmospheric Science
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Plasma sheet
Uranus
Aerospace Engineering
Magnetosphere
Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jupiter
Solar wind
Geophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Saturn
Magnetosphere of Saturn
Physics::Space Physics
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02731177
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Space Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2eb8aff101249d297bda42ffe7723f3f