SH02: The February 2004 Ulysses Encounter With Jupiter

Sponsor: Space Physics and Aeronomy
CoSponsor: Planetary Sciences

Conveners:

Steven T. Suess. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
256-961-7611, Steven.T.Suess@nasa.gov

Robert Macdowall , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
301-286-2608. Robert.J.Macdowall@nasa.gov

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS

Simultaneous X-ray, ultraviolet, and radio observations of Jovian aurora (Waite, et al.), using the Ulysses spacecraft and near-Earth instruments, examine the origin(s) of the Jovian aurora. The new Ulysses radio data from high northern Jovicentric latitudes provides a previously unobtainable viewpoint for these investigations (Kaiser and MacDowall, Reiner, et al.). Measurements of energetic particles (Zhang, Heber, et al.) and dust (Krueger and Gruen) are producing the first three-dimensional picture of Jupiter as a major source of emissions in the heliosphere. It is being found that these emissions can be very sensitive to changing conditions in the incident solar wind (Smith et al., MacDowall, et al.).

POSSIBLE MEDIA INTEREST:

1. J. H. Waite, Jr., et al., "Simultaneous X-ray, Ultraviolet, and Radio Observations of Jupiter's Aurora", ref. #577.
2. Harald Krueger, Eberhard Gruen, and the Ulysses DUST team, "Jovian Dust Streams During Ulysses' 2004 Distant Jupiter Encounter", ref. #1844.

 

Encounter Trajectory

Jupiter Distant Encounter Scientific Investigation

References

Related Articles

Ulysses Investigators

Observed Data

Jupiter Distant Encounter Special at Spring AGU Meeting