New Results From Galileo's First Flyby of Ganymede: Reconnection‐Driven Flows at the Low‐Latitude Magnetopause Boundary, Crossing the Cusp, and Icy Ionospheric Escape

Abstract On 27 June 1996, the NASA Galileo spacecraft made humanity's first flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, discovering that it is the only moon known to possess an internally generated magnetic field. Resurrecting the original Galileo Plasma Subsystem (PLS) data analysis softwa...

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Main Authors: Glyn Collinson, William R. Paterson, Christopher Bard, John Dorelli, Alex Glocer, Menelaos Sarantos, Rob Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-04-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075487
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