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Titan's Magnetic Field Signature During the First Cassini Encounter
- Source :
- Science. 308:992-995
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005.
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Abstract
- The magnetic field signature obtained by Cassini during its first close encounter with Titan on 26 October 2004 is presented and explained in terms of an advanced model. Titan was inside the saturnian magnetosphere. A magnetic field minimum before closest approach marked Cassini's entry into the magnetic ionopause layer. Cassini then left the northern and entered the southern magnetic tail lobe. The magnetic field before and after the encounter was approximately constant for ∼20 Titan radii, but the field orientation changed exactly at the location of Titan's orbit. No evidence of an internal magnetic field at Titan was detected.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Multidisciplinary
Extraterrestrial Environment
Atmosphere
Magnetosphere
Astronomy
Champ magnetique
Close encounter
Astrobiology
Magnetic field
Magnetics
symbols.namesake
Saturn
Field orientation
Physics::Space Physics
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Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Spacecraft
Ionosphere
Titan (rocket family)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10959203 and 00368075
- Volume :
- 308
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....179f4c3a5dd7a6af93f0df4fdcd2c010