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Cassini RADAR: prospects for Titan surface investigations using the microwave radiometer

Lorenz, Ralph D.; West, Richard D.; Janssen, Michael A. +3 more

The Radar instrument on the Cassini spacecraft can be used in a passive radiometric mode to map the microwave emission from Titan: these will be the first resolved microwave emission measurements of an icy satellite. Observation plans and the theory for their interpretation is presented: these data should be able to provide crude composition maps …

First evidence of IMF control of Jovian magnetospheric boundary locations: Cassini and Galileo magnetic field measurements compared

Kivelson, Margaret G.; Southwood, David J.

The Cassini spacecraft, en route to Saturn, passed close to Jupiter while the Galileo spacecraft was completing its 28th and 29th orbits of Jupiter, thus offering a unique opportunity for direct study of the solar wind-Jovian interaction. Here evidence is given of response of the Jovian magnetopause and bow shock positions to changes of the north-…

Modeling radio emission attenuation lanes observed by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft

Gurnett, D. A.; Hospodarsky, G. B.; Kurth, W. S. +3 more

The Cassini gravity-assisted flyby of Jupiter provided an opportunity to investigate radio emission attenuation lanes that were previously observed in the Voyager and Galileo data. The Cassini radio and plasma wave science (RPWS) investigation is the most advanced plasma wave instrument to visit the Jovian system, measuring electric fields over th…