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AN: P41A-0930    [Abstracts]
TI: Jovian Small Orbiter for Magnetospheric and Auroral Studies
AU: * Takashima, T
EM: ttakeshi@stp.isas.jaxa.jp
AF: ISAS/JAXA, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 229-8510 Japan
AU: Kasaba, Y
EM: kasaba@isas.jaxa.jp
AF: ISAS/JAXA, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 229-8510 Japan
AU: Misawa, H
EM:
AF: PPARC, Tohoku Univ., Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
AU: Kawaguchi, J
EM:
AF: ISAS/JAXA, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 229-8510 Japan
AB: Solar-Sail Project to have been examined by ISAS/JAXA as an engineering mission has a possibility of a small probe into the Jovian orbit. This paper summarizes the basic design of Jovian magnetospheric and auroral studies by this small chance. The large-scale Jovian mission has been a hope since the 1970s when the examinations of planetary exploration were started in Japan. In the one of plans, the largest planet in the solar system would be solved by two main objectives: (1) Structure of a gas planet: the internal & atmospheric structures of a gas planet which could not become a star (following the objectives of Planet-C and BepiColombo). (2) Jovian-type magnetosphere: the process of a pulsar-like magnetosphere with the strongest magnetospheric activities in the solar system (following the objectives of BepiColombo and SCOPE). The small polar-orbit orbiter in Solar-Sail Project aims to establish the feasibility of such future outer planet missions by ISAS/JAXA. It aims the former target in its limited resources.
DE: 5737 Magnetospheres (2756)
DE: 5794 Instruments and techniques
DE: 6220 Jupiter
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005