Publication Date:
2005-02-26
Description:
Cassini's successful orbit insertion has provided the first examination of Saturn's magnetosphere in 23 years, revealing a dynamic plasma and magnetic environment on short and long time scales. There has been no noticeable change in the internal magnetic field, either in its strength or its near-alignment with the rotation axis. However, the external magnetic field is different compared with past spacecraft observations. The current sheet within the magnetosphere is thinner and more extended, and we observed small diamagnetic cavities and ion cyclotron waves of types that were not reported before.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dougherty, M K -- Achilleos, N -- Andre, N -- Arridge, C S -- Balogh, A -- Bertucci, C -- Burton, M E -- Cowley, S W H -- Erdos, G -- Giampieri, G -- Glassmeier, K-H -- Khurana, K K -- Leisner, J -- Neubauer, F M -- Russell, C T -- Smith, E J -- Southwood, D J -- Tsurutani, B T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1266-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. m.dougherty@imperial.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15731444" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink