Europlanet Science Congress 2020
Virtual meeting
21 September – 9 October 2020
Europlanet Science Congress 2020
Virtual meeting
21 September – 9 October 2020
EPSC Abstracts
Vol.14, EPSC2020-334, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-334
Europlanet Science Congress 2020
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Juno Diagnosis of Magnetospheric Dynamics at Jupiter with Energetic Neutral Atoms

Barry Mauk1, George Clark1, Frederic Allegrini2, Fran Bagenal3, Scott Bolton2, John Connerney4, Dennis Haggerty1, Peter Kollmann1, Donald Mitchell1, Chris Paranicas1, and Abigail Rymer1
Barry Mauk et al.
  • 1Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, United States of America (barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu)
  • 2Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • 3University of Colorado, Laboratory for Space and Atmospheric Sciences, Bolter, Colorado, USA
  • 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) cameras on orbiting spacecraft at Earth and Saturn have helped greatly to diagnose these complex magnetospheres. Within this decade, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission will arrive at Jupiter and make ENA imaging a major thrust in helping to understand its complex magnetosphere. The present polar-orbiting Juno mission carries no ENA camera, but the energetic particle JEDI instrument is serendipitously sensitive to ENA’s with energies > 50 keV, provided there are no charged particles in the environment to mask their presence. Juno offers great service to the interpretation of both past and future ENA imaging with its orbit allowing unique viewing perspectives. Here we report on several components of ENA emissions that can probe the dynamical state of the regions involved, including the space environment of the orbit of Io, that of Europa, and Jupiter itself. A special focus here will be new observations of ENA emissions from Jupiter’s polar regions, the proper interpretation of which may end up being unique to the Juno mission, even after the JUICE mission.

How to cite: Mauk, B., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Bagenal, F., Bolton, S., Connerney, J., Haggerty, D., Kollmann, P., Mitchell, D., Paranicas, C., and Rymer, A.: Juno Diagnosis of Magnetospheric Dynamics at Jupiter with Energetic Neutral Atoms, Europlanet Science Congress 2020, online, 21 September–9 Oct 2020, EPSC2020-334, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-334, 2020