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MESSENGER and Venus Express Observations of the Solar Wind Interaction with VenusAt 23:08 UTC on 5 June 2007 the MESSENGER spacecraft reached its closest approach altitude of 338 kin during its final flyby of Venus en route to its 2011 orbit insertion at Mercury. The availability of the simultaneous Venus Express solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field measurements provides a rare opportunity to examine the influence of upstream conditions on this planet's solar wind interaction. We present MESSENGER observations of new features of the Venus - solar wind interaction including hot flow anomalies upstream of the bow shock, a flux rope in the near-tail and a two-point determination of the timescale for magnetic flux transport through this induced magnetosphere. Citation: Stavin, J. A., et al. (2009), MESSENGER and Venus Express observations of the solar wind interaction with Venus,
Document ID
20100031249
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Slavin, James A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Acuna, Mario H.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Anderson, Brian J.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
Barabash, Stas
(Swedish Inst. of Space Physics Kiruna, Sweden)
Benna, Mehdi
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Boardsen, Scott A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Fraenz, Markus
(Max-Planck-Inst. for Solar System Research Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)
Gloeckler, George
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Gold, Robert E.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
Ho,George C.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
Korth, Haje
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
Krimigis, Stamatios M.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
McNutt, Ralph L., Jr.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD, United States)
Raines, Jim M.
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Sarantos, Menelaos
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Solomon, Sean C.
(Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, DC, United States)
Zhang, Tielong
(Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Graz, Austria)
Zurbuchen, Thomas H.
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2009
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 36
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-97271
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-00002
Distribution Limits
Public
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