Low energy charged particles in near Martian space from the SLED and LET experiments aboard the Phobos-2 spacecraft
Abstract
The charged particle detector SLED on the Phobos-2 spacecraft has recorded, during a number of circular orbits about Mars, significant fluxes of ions with energies up to 200 keV in close spatial association with the Martian bow shock. The observed characteristics of these enhancements suggest that different shock acceleration mechanisms were operative in producing individual events
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(91)90138-Z
- Bibcode:
- 1991P&SS...39..153A
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Mars Environment;
- Particle Telescopes;
- Phobos;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Planetary Magnetic Fields;
- Plasma Waves;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- MARS;
- CHARGED PARTICLES;
- SPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS;
- PHOBOS 2 MISSION;
- FLUX;
- SLED INSTRUMENT;
- LET INSTRUMENT;
- IONS;
- ENERGY;
- BOW SHOCK;
- MAGNETOSPHERE;
- SHOCK;
- ACCELERATION;
- EQUIPMENT;
- ANALYSIS;
- DIFFUSION;
- TURBULENCE;
- PLASMA;
- OSCILLATIONS;
- DENSITY;
- PICKUP;
- OXYGEN;
- Space Radiation; Mars