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Planetary magnetospheres
Author(s) -
Siscoe George L.,
Slavin James A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg017i007p01677
Subject(s) - uranus , venus , astrobiology , mars exploration program , astronomy , jupiter (rocket family) , physics , magnetosphere , planetary science , geology , planet , spacecraft , plasma , quantum mechanics
Although the Jupiter encounters of Pioneers 10 and 11 occurred in the previous quadrennium, the flood of new information that they released launched a wave of publications that crested in the present quadrennium. For completeness all of the magnetospheric literature relating to the two encounters is included in the bibliography. The present quadrennium also recorded one Venus encounter and three Mercury encounters by Mariner 10, as well as Soviet missions to both Venus and Mars. Earth based optical and radio exploration of the magnetospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and (possibly) Uranus occurred and provided a number of important new results.