What the JADE electron and ionospheric measurements told us about the aurora and atmosphere of Ganymede
- Southwest Research Institute, Space Science and Engineering Division, San Antonio, United States of America (hwaite@swri.edu)
Measurements by Juno as the spacecraft flew by Ganymede on June 7th of 2021 from the JADE instrument when combined with images from UVS of the aurora can be used to significantly advance our knowledge of the atmosphere and ionosphere. JADE measures the ion outflow composition that results from downgoing plasma electrons in the polar cap region and also measures the downward electrons associated with the reconnection at the boundary of Ganymede’s magnetosphere with the Jupiter magnetosphere. Modeling can help to check the consistency between the electron energy influx in the polar cap and the resulting ionospheric outflow and can also be used to set constraints on how reconnected electrons form the auroral atmosphere and the auroral emissions measured by UVS.
How to cite: Waite, J. H., Valek, P., Greathouse, T., Allegrini, F., Ebert, R., Gladstone, R., and Bolton, S.: What the JADE electron and ionospheric measurements told us about the aurora and atmosphere of Ganymede, Europlanet Science Congress 2022, Granada, Spain, 18–23 Sep 2022, EPSC2022-267, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2022-267, 2022.
