Plasma environment of Titan: a 3-D hybrid simulation study

Titan possesses a dense atmosphere, consisting mainly of molecular nitrogen. Titan's orbit is located within the Saturnian magnetosphere most of the time, where the corotating plasma flow is super-Alfvénic, yet subsonic and submagnetosonic. Since Titan does not possess a significan...

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Main Authors: S. Simon, A. Bößwetter, T. Bagdonat, U. Motschmann, K.-H. Glassmeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2006-05-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/24/1113/2006/angeo-24-1113-2006.pdf