Magnetospheric interactions of Saturn's moon Dione (2005‐2015)

• Main Authors: Krupp, N, Kotova, A, Roussos, E, Simon, S, Liuzzo, L, Paranicas, C, Khurana, K, Jones, GH
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020
• Subjects: outer planets; Dione; moon‐magnetosphere interaction; North Pole; Kotova
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10099084/1/Jones_2019JA027688.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10099084/

The moon Dione orbits Saturn at 6.2 Saturn radii $R_S$ deep in the Kronian magnetosphere. In‐situ studies of the moon‐magnetosphere interaction processes near Dione were possible with the Cassini/Huygens mission which flew by close to Dione five times at distances between 99 km and 516 km. In additi...