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As with Earth's magnetosphere, the boundary separating the solar wind's plasma from that within Saturn's magnetosphere is called the magnetopause. [2] The magnetopause distance from the planet's center at the subsolar point [ note 1 ] varies widely from 16 to 27 R s (R s =60,330 km is the equatorial radius of Saturn).
The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, extending up to 7,000,000 kilometers (4,300,000 mi) on the dayside and almost to the orbit of Saturn on the nightside. [17] Jupiter's magnetosphere is stronger than Earth's by an order of magnitude, and its magnetic moment is approximately 18,000 times ...
A Tediously Accurate Map of the Solar System (web based scroll map scaled to the Moon being 1 pixel) NASA/JPL Solar System main page. NASA's Solar System Simulator; Solar System Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration
Magnetosphere of Saturn; U. Magnetosphere of Uranus; V. Magnetosphere of Venus This page was last edited on 14 June 2021, at 02:00 (UTC). Text is available ...
The first dedicated ENA camera was flown on the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission, [23] launched in 1997 to study Saturn's magnetosphere. [8] [24] Saturn's main radiation belt was measured beginning at an altitude of 70,000 kilometres (43,000 mi) from its surface and reaching out to 783,000 kilometres (487,000 mi). Cassini also detected a previously ...
Saturn – sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive.
The magnetosheath is the region of space between the magnetopause and the bow shock of a planet's magnetosphere.The regularly organized magnetic field generated by the planet becomes weak and irregular in the magnetosheath due to interaction with the incoming solar wind, and is incapable of fully deflecting the highly charged particles.
As a result, Saturn's magnetosphere is much smaller than Jupiter's. [ 82 ] When Voyager 2 entered the magnetosphere, the solar wind pressure was high and the magnetosphere extended only 19 Saturn radii, or 1.1 million km (684,000 mi), [ 83 ] although it enlarged within several hours, and remained so for about three days. [ 84 ]