--------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Experiment --------------------------------------------------------- Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) NSSDC ID: 77-076A-05 Mission Name: Voyager 2 Principal Investigator: Ness ------------------- Experiment mass: 5.60 kg Average experiment power: 2.20 W Average experiment bit rate: 0.12 kbps ------------------- Description This experiment was designed to investigate (1) the magnetic fields of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and (2) the solar-wind interaction of the magnetospheres of these planets with the interplanetary magnetic field out to the solar-wind boundary with the interstellar magnetic field, and beyond, if crossed. The investigation was carried out using two high-field and two low-field triaxial fluxgate magnetometers. Data accuracy of the interplanetary fields was plus or minus 0.1 nT, and the range of measurements was from 0.01 nT to 2.E-3 T. ------------------- Discipline(s) Planetary Science/Fields and Particles Space Physics/Heliospheric Studies --------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Experiment Personnel --------------------------------------------------------- Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) NSSDC ID: 77-076A-05 Principal Investigator Dr. Norman F. Ness Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware 217 Sharp Laboratory Newark, DE 19716 Electronic Mail NFNESS@BARTOL.UDEL.EDU (INTERNET) ----- Co-Investigator Dr. Ronald P. Lepping GSFC-Code 696 Electronic Mail RPL@LEPRPL.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) LEPVAX::U5RPL (NSI/DECNET) ----- Dr. Kenneth W. Behannon Retired, Originally at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ----- Dr. Leonard F. Burlaga GSFC-Code 692 Electronic Mail LEPVAX::U2LEB (NSI/DECNET) ----- Prof. Fritz M. Neubauer Institut fur Geophysik und Meteorologie Universitat zu Koln Albertus-Magnus-Platz 50931 Koln Germany Electronic Mail NEUBAUER@GEO.UNI-KOELN.DE (INTERNET) ----- Dr. Mario H. Acuna GSFC-Code 695 Electronic Mail U2MHA@LEPVAX.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) LEPVAX::U2MHA (NSI/DECNET) ----- NSSDC Contact Dr. Edwin V. Bell, II Hughes STX Corporation Suite 400 7701 Greenbelt Road Greenbelt, MD 20770 Electronic Mail BELL@NSSDC (BITNET) BELL@NSSDC.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) NSSDCA::BELL (NSI/DECNET) ----- --------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Experiment Selected References --------------------------------------------------------- Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) NSSDC ID: 77-076A-05 1. Acuna, M. H., Behannon, K. W., and Connerney, J. E. P., Jupiter's magnetic field and magnetosphere, In--Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere, edited by A. J. Dessler, pp. 1--50, Cambridge U. Press., Cambridge, UK, 1983. 2. Behannon, K. W., Acuna, M. H., Burlaga, L. F., Lepping, R. P., Ness, N. F., and Neubauer, F. M., Magnetic field experiment for Voyagers 1 and 2, Space Sci. Rev., 21, No. 3, 235-257, Dec. 1977. 3. Connerney, J. E. P., Acuna, M. H., and Ness, N. F., Currents in Saturn's magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 88, No. A11, 8779-8789, Nov. 1983. 4. Connerney, J. E. P., Acuna, M. H., and Ness, N. F., Modeling the Jovian current sheet and inner magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 86, No. A10, 8370-8384, Sept. 1981. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this experiment, please contact: Dr. Edwin V. Bell, II, bell@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov 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: 1997-01-18 Programming by: E. V. Bell, II