Saturn's Ionosphere
| Autor: | Moore, Luke, Galand, Marina, Kliore, Arvydas J., Nagy, Andrew F., O'Donoghue, James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781316227220.008 |
| Popis: | This chapter summarizes our current understanding of the ionosphere of Saturn. We give an overview of Saturn ionospheric science from the Voyager era to the present, with a focus on the wealth of new data and discoveries enabled by Cassini, including a massive increase in the number of electron density altitude profiles. We discuss recent ground-based detection of the effect of "ring rain" on Saturn's ionosphere, and present possible model interpretations of the observations. Finally, we outline current model-data discrepancies and indicate how future observations can help in advancing our understanding of the various controlling physical and chemical processes. Comment: 34 pages, 17 figures, Chapter 8 of a forthcoming multi-volume work entitled "Saturn in the 21st Century" |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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