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Identification of a Dynamic Atmosphere at Enceladus with the Cassini Magnetometer

Published:2006-03-10 Issue:5766 Volume:311 Page:1406-1409
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Dougherty M. K.¹²³⁴,Khurana K. K.¹²³⁴,Neubauer F. M.¹²³⁴,Russell C. T.¹²³⁴,Saur J.¹²³⁴,Leisner J. S.¹²³⁴,Burton M. E.¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

2. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA.

3. Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Köln University, 50923 Köln, Germany.

4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.

Abstract

The Cassini magnetometer has detected the interaction of the magnetospheric plasma of Saturn with an atmospheric plume at the icy moon Enceladus. This unanticipated finding, made on a distant flyby, was subsequently confirmed during two follow-on flybys, one very close to Enceladus. The magnetometer data are consistent with local outgassing activity via a plume from the surface of the moon near its south pole, as confirmed by other Cassini instruments.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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