The hot plasma environment at Jupiter: Ulysses results.

Authors :: Lanzerotti, L.J.
Armstrong, T.
Source :: Science. 9/11/1992, Vol. 257 Issue 5076, p1518. 7p. 11 Color Photographs, 2 Diagrams, 43 Graphs.
Publication Year :: 1992
Abstract: Reports on several of the new discoveries made concerning the hot plasma environment during the Ulysses flyby of Jupiter. Extended magnetosphere; Composition of heavy ion population; Characteristics of ion fluxes in day-side magnetosphere; Characteristics of dusk-side, high-latitude region; Measurement of intense particle beams which may produce auroras in Jupiter's polar ice caps.