--------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Experiment --------------------------------------------------------- Jovian Magnetic Field NSSDC ID: 73-019A-14 Mission Name: Pioneer 11 Principal Investigator: Acuna Description This instrument, designed to measure the Jovian and Saturnian magnetic field, consisted of a single-range triaxial fluxgate magnetometer sensor and associated electronics capable of measuring fields from 1.E-6 to 1.E-3 T (0.01 to 10 gauss) along each orthogonal axis. Use of a 10-bit A-to-D converter yielded a quantization step size of minus to plus 600 nT for fields less than 2.E-4 T. Instantaneous vector measurements were made once every three revolutions of the spacecraft (36 s) and transmitted to the ground with no further onboard processing. More instrumental details are given in Sp. Sci. Instrum., v. 1, p. 177, 1975. Principal Jovian scientific results can be found in J. Geophys. Res., v. 81, p. 2917, 1976. This instrument was turned off in October 1979. ------------------- Discipline(s) Planetary Science/Fields and Particles Space Physics/Heliospheric Studies --------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Experiment Personnel --------------------------------------------------------- Jovian Magnetic Field NSSDC ID: 73-019A-14 Principal Investigator Dr. Mario H. Acuna GSFC-Code 695 Electronic Mail U2MHA@LEPVAX.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) LEPVAX::U2MHA (NSI/DECNET) ----- Other Investigator Dr. Norman F. Ness Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware 217 Sharp Laboratory Newark, DE 19716 Electronic Mail BARTOL::NFNESS (NSI/DECNET) ----- NSSDC Contact Dr. John F. Cooper GSFC-Code 632 Electronic Mail JCOOPER@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) NCF::JCOOPER (NSI/DECNET) ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this experiment, please contact: Dr. John F. Cooper, jcooper@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, (301)286-1193 GSFC-Code 632 For questions about the NSSDC's information systems, please contact: Dr. James Thieman, thieman@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, (301)286-9790 National Space Science Data Center, Code 633.2 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Official: J. H. King, king@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Last Updated: 1996-03-08 Output Generated: 1996-09-24 Programming by: E. V. Bell, II