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Status on the Recovery of Voyager Plasma Electron Observations at JupiterWe give status report on the recovery of Voyager 1 and 2 plasma electron observations during their Jupiter flybys. The plan is to complete this analysis including new results never published before. The original summary data tapes and later datafiles were evidently permanently lost along with our past analysis results of the plasma electron observations except for that shown in previous publications. These summary data tapes included the plasma ion and electron raw datafiles, status words needed to convert data numbers to currents, SEDR data with trajectory and attitude information and magnetic field measurements. In addition to recovering the plasma electron plasma observations (electron intensities and fluid parameters of the thermal and suprathermal electron populations, respectively), the SEDR trajectory information during the out bound passes were lost but fortunately in the past the SEDR files were converted to Spice Kernals, so this unexpected problem was solved. In addition, we had to rewrite our read routines it looked like the previous read routines so the rest of the Fortran code could be used; the Fortran- code had to be modified to work with the latest compilers and computer platforms. We will report on the- status of our work- originally funded under the Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART)program but now being funded by the Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM) Exosphere Ionosphere Magnetospheres Modeling (EIMM)program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Document ID
20220017068
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Poster
Authors
E C Sittler Jr.
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
W R Paterson
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
D J Gershman
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
D G Simpson
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
J F Cooper
(Goddard Space Flight Center (EMERITUS) Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Date Acquired
November 10, 2022
Subject Category
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration
Plasma Physics
Meeting Information
Meeting: AGU Fall Meeting 2022
Location: Chicago, IL
Country: US
Start Date: December 10, 2022
End Date: December 16, 2022
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
Funding Number(s)
WBS: 811073.02.52.01.13.28
CONTRACT_GRANT: GSFC - 670.0 GRANT
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Use by or on behalf of the US Gov. Permitted.
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