Titan’s influence on Saturnian substorm occurrence

Substorms play an important role in the energization and transport of plasmas in planetary magnetospheres, including the shedding of the mass added by moons in the case of Jupiter and Saturn. Mass shedding occurs through rapid reconnection in the near tail resulting in dipolarization on the magnetos...

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Main Authors: C. T. Russell, C. M. Jackman, H. Y. Wei, C. Bertucci, M. K. Dougherty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-06-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034080
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