SM33A:
Cassini Science Highlights of Saturn's Magnetosphere During the Grand Finale and Ring-Grazing Orbits II Posters

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Session ID#: 22784

Session Description:
In September 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn will end in a dramatic plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere. Science observations are planned until the final loss of contact with the spacecraft. Preceding this, Cassini will execute a series of twenty-two unique highly inclined "Grand Finale" orbits with closest approach just over Saturn’s cloud tops. Prior to the Grand Finale, Cassini’s trajectory will pass through the unexplored region at the outer edge of the main rings in a series of 20 highly-inclined “Ring Grazing” orbits. Planned observations include measurements of Saturn’s unusual magnetic field from the closest-ever vantage point, close views of Saturn’s aurora and sampling of field lines coupled to them, measurements in regions where Saturn’s intense kilometric radio emission (SKR) is thought to originate, in-situ sampling of the dust environment and inner magnetosphere near the F-ring. This session will focus on magnetospheric observations made during these unique mission phases.
Primary Convener:  Marcia E Burton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Frank J Crary, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Sarah Victoria Badman, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom and Norbert Krupp, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Chairs:  Frank J Crary, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Marcia E Burton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marcia E Burton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

5719 Interactions with particles and fields [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
5729 Ionospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
5734 Magnetic fields and magnetism [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
5737 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Energetic Particle Periodicities during the Cassini Grand Finale (220398)
James F Carbary1, Peter Kollmann1, Donald G Mitchell1, Norbert Krupp2 and Elias Roussos3, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Planetary period oscillations in Saturn’s magnetosphere: New results from the F-ring and proximal orbits (242027)
G Provan, University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, Stanley W H Cowley, University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, Emma J Bunce, University of Leicester, School of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, Gregory James Hunt, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom and The Cassini Magnetometer Team
Examining the Combined Saturn and Ring Exosphere/Ionosphere using Cassini’s Proximal orbits (284057)
Orenthal J Tucker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Wei-Ling Tseng, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Robert E Johnson, University of Virginia, Materials Science and Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, Mark E Perry, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and The Cassini INMS Team
Characterizing Plasma Waves during Cassini’s F ring and Proximal Orbits (233414)
Ali H Sulaiman1, William S Kurth2, Donald A Gurnett3, John Douglas Menietti2, George B Hospodarsky2, Ann M Persoon2, Shengyi Ye2 and Michele Karen Dougherty4, (1)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Plasma Wave Intensity During Cassini's F-ring and Proximal Orbits (253593)
John Douglas Menietti1, Terrance F Averkamp2, Ali H Sulaiman3, Shengyi Ye2, William S Kurth4, Ann M Persoon1, George B Hospodarsky2, Donald A Gurnett5, Michiko W Morooka6 and Jan-Erik Wahlund6, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (4)Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Electromagnetic Quasi-periodic Whistler-Mode Bursts during Ring Grazing Passes (256640)
William M Farrell1, Michiko W Morooka2, Jan-Erik Wahlund2, William S Kurth3, George Hospodarsky4, Robert J. MacDowall5, Donald G Mitchell6, Donald A Gurnett4, Norbert Krupp7, Elias Roussos8 and Peter Kollmann9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (8)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (9)The Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Laurel, United States

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