HR: 14:50h
AN: P53B-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Transport in Saturn's Outer Magnetosphere: Cassini Observations
AU: * Thomsen, M F
EM: mthomsen@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Tokar, R L
EM: rlt@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Barraclough, B
EM: bbarraclough@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Delapp, D
EM: ddelapp@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Reisenfeld, D
EM: dan.reisenfeld@umontana.edu
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Reisenfeld, D
EM: dan.reisenfeld@umontana.edu
AF: University of Montana, 32 Campus Dr., Missoula, MT 59812 United States
AU: Steinberg, J T
EM: jsteinberg@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Fish, B
EM: brian.fish@umontana.edu
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Fish, B
EM: brian.fish@umontana.edu
AF: University of Montana, 32 Campus Dr., Missoula, MT 59812 United States
AU: Sittler, E C
EM: Edward.C.Sittler@nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 692, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hill, T W
EM: hill@rice.edu
AF: Rice University, MS 108, Houston, TX 77251 United States
AU: Young, D T
EM: dyoung@swri.edu
AF: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Rd. P.O. Drawer28510, San Antonio, TX 78228 United States
AU: Crary, F
EM: fcrary@swri.edu
AF: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Rd. P.O. Drawer28510, San Antonio, TX 78228 United States
AU: Andre, N
EM: Nicolas.Andre@cesr.fr
AF: Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, 14, Avenue Edouard Belin, Toulouse, 31400 France
AU: Coates, A J
EM: ajc@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, Holmbury St. Mary, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AB: In its first pass through Saturn's magnetosphere, the Cassini spacecraft traversed several distinct regions, as previously identified in Pioneer and Voyager data. Beyond approximately 7 RS, the plasma distributions observed by the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) exhibited a very structured character, with cool, dense plasma alternating with hotter, more tenuous material, often on a very short time scale. The properties of this region as seen by CAPS will be described, with particular attention to composition, energy spectra, and flow velocities. The implications of the observations for various models of plasma origin and transport will be examined.
DE: 5719 Interactions with particles and fields
DE: 5737 Magnetospheres (2756)
DE: 5780 Tori and exospheres
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting