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Interaction of the solar wind with the outer planets

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The hypersonic analog for the interaction of the solar wind with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto is used to provide estimates of shock shapes and locations as well as average magnetosheath and/or ionosheath properties for these planets. Several representative spacecraft flyby trajectories (designed for outer-planet ‘Grand Tour’ simulations) are superimposed upon a series of figures in order to provide estimates of potential plasma and field parameters which may be encountered. Consideration is given first to the possibility that several of these planets have intrinsic magnetic fields and, secondly, to the interaction of the solar wind directly on the ionosphere should there actually be no intrinsic field. Saturn and Pluto are chosen as examples of this latter case.

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  1. Space Environment Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colo, USA

    Murray Dryer

  2. Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, Calif., USA

    Arthur W. Rizzi (NRC-NASA Postdoctoral Resident Research Associate, Computational Fluid Dynamics Branch)

  3. Texas Instruments, Inc., Alexandria, Va., USA

    Wen-Wu Shen

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Dryer, M., Rizzi, A.W. & Shen, WW. Interaction of the solar wind with the outer planets. Astrophys Space Sci 22, 329–351 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00647431

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