Journal article
Jupiter's magnetosphere and aurorae observed by the Juno spacecraft during its first polar orbits
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center1
California Institute of Technology2
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory3
Princeton University4
Johns Hopkins University5
University of California at Los Angeles6
National Institute for Astrophysics7
Southwest Research Institute8
University of Colorado Boulder9
University of Liege10
University of Leicester11
University of Iowa12
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark13
Measurement and Instrumentation Systems, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark14
...and 4 moreThe Juno spacecraft acquired direct observations of the jovian magnetosphere and auroral emissions from a vantage point above the poles. Juno's capture orbit spanned the jovian magnetosphere from bow shock to the planet, providing magnetic field, charged particle, and wave phenomena context for Juno's passage over the poles and traverse of Jupiter's hazardous inner radiation belts.
Juno's energetic particle and plasma detectors measured electrons precipitating in the polar regions, exciting intense aurorae, observed simultaneously by the ultraviolet and infrared imaging spectrographs. Juno transited beneath the most intense parts of the radiation belts, passed about 4000 kilometers above the cloud tops at closest approach, well inside the jovian rings, and recorded the electrical signatures of high-velocity impacts with small particles as it traversed the equator.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 826-832 |
ISSN: | 10959203 and 00368075 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1126/science.aam5928 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0001-7478-6462 , 0000-0003-4998-8008 , 0000-0003-0696-4380 , 0000-0002-3963-1614 , 0000-0002-9115-0789 , 0000-0002-2514-0187 , 0000-0002-4041-0034 , 0000-0003-0060-072X , 0000-0001-9200-9878 , Jørgensen, John Leif , 0000-0002-5471-6202 , 0000-0003-2242-5459 , 0000-0001-9789-3797 , 0000-0002-4552-4292 , 0000-0002-4391-8255 , 0000-0003-2410-3437 , 0000-0002-2318-8750 and 0000-0002-1978-1025 |