The Plasma Science experiment on Voyager 2 detected a magnetosphere filled with a tenuous plasma, rotating with the planet. Temperatures of the plasma, composed of protons and electrons, ranged from 10 eV to about 1 keV. The sources of these protons and electrons are probably the ionosphere of Uranus or the extended neutral hydrogen cloud surrounding the planet. As at earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, there is an extended magnetotail with a central plasma sheet. Although similar in global structure to the magnetospheres of these planets, the large angle between the rotation and magnetic axes of the planet and the orientation of the rotation axis with respect to the solar wind flow make the Uranian magnetosphere unique.


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    Title :

    The low energy plasma in the Uranian magnetosphere


    Contributors:
    Mcnutt, R. L., Jr. (author) / Belcher, J. (author) / Bridge, H. (author) / Lazarus, A. J. (author) / Richardson, J. (author) / Sands, M. (author) / Bagenal, F. (author) / Eviatar, A. (author) / Goertz, C. (author) / Ogilvie, K. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1987-01-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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