Enceladus: A significant plasma source for Saturn's magnetosphere
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Enceladus: A significant plasma source for Saturn’s magnetosphere
[1] The Cassini Plasma Spectrometer has reported dramatic perturbations of the magnetospheric plasma flow in a region extending at least 30 satellite radii away from Saturn’s small but active icy satellite Enceladus. We interpret these observations here by means of a steady state model of the electrodynamic coupling between Enceladus and Saturn. Neutral water molecules from Enceladus are ionize...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2006ja011674