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Cassini between Venus and Earth: Detection of interstellar dust
Dikarev, V.; Kempf, S.; Krüger, H. +5 more
We report the successful in situ measurement of interstellar dust particles inside the orbit of the Earth with the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) on the Cassini spacecraft. The impact ionization subsystem of the CDA is similar to the instruments on Ulysses and Galileo. As the heliocentric velocity and the direction of the interstellar dust flux are we…
Cassini plasma spectrometer measurements of Jovian bow shock structure
Dougherty, Michele K.; Gurnett, Donald A.; Coates, Andrew J. +9 more
The Cassini spacecraft on its way to Saturn flew by Jupiter and crossed its bow shock more than forty times on the dusk-side of the planet, whereas the early missions targeting Jupiter explored the dawnside. Here we report the first results concerning these bow shock crossings, based on the measurements of the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), t…
Ion isotropy and ion resonant waves in the solar wind: Corrected Cassini observations
Gurnett, D. A.; Dougherty, M. K.; Hospodarsky, G. B. +3 more
In an earlier paper [, 2001], observations of electric field fluctuations in the range 0.5 to 25 Hz were reported. We have recently found that the data presented in that paper are seriously contaminated by broadband interference which appears to be generated in the spacecraft wake. Wake instabilities have been found by others, but the plasma condi…