Investigation of plasma density bulge in front of Venus bow shock
Abstract
Significant ion and electron flux enhancements immediately upstream of the Venus bow shock were observed by the Electron Temperature Probe on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Mass loading of the solar wind by oxygen ions accounts for only about 10 percent of the observed effect.
- Publication:
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Michigan Univ. Final Report
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990muaa.reptQ.....
- Keywords:
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- Bow Waves;
- Flux (Rate);
- Pioneer Venus 1 Spacecraft;
- Plasma Density;
- Shock Waves;
- Venus Atmosphere;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Oxygen Atoms;
- Oxygen Ions;
- Solar Wind;
- Temperature Probes;
- Ultraviolet Spectrometers;
- Astrophysics