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Dust and spacecraft charging in Saturn's E ring

Kempf, Sascha; Horányi, Mihály; Hsu, Hsiang-Wen

The electrostatic potential of a spacecraft reflects the local physical conditions and also affects the in situ thermal plasma measurements. In this work we focus on the spacecraft charging in the high dust density region near Enceladus in Saturn's E ring. In a dust-rich environment, the spacecraft charging is modified by the complex (dusty) plasm…