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Plasma conditions at Europa’s orbit
- Source :
- Icarus. 261:1-13
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- With attention turned to Europa as a target for exploration, we focus on the space environment in which Europa is embedded. We review remote and in situ observations of plasma properties at Europa’s orbit, between Io’s dense, UV-emitting plasma torus and Jupiter’s dynamic plasma sheet. Where observations are limited (e.g. in plasma composition), we supplement our analysis with models of the neutral and plasma populations from Io to Europa. We evaluate variations and uncertainties in plasma properties with radial distance, latitude, longitude and time.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Plasma sheet
Astronomy
Magnetosphere
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Plasma
Physics::Geophysics
Jupiter
Exploration of Jupiter
Physics::Plasma Physics
Space and Planetary Science
Physics::Space Physics
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Longitude
Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Space environment
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00191035
- Volume :
- 261
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Icarus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........75aa364a66c3e2f0ce4d9678df656831