MESSENGER and Venus Express observations of the solar wind interaction with Venus

James A. Slavin; Mario H. Acuña; Brian J. Anderson; Stas Barabash; Mehdi Benna; Scott A. Boardsen; Markus Fraenz; George Gloeckler; Robert E. Gold; George C. Ho; Haje Korth; Stamatios M. Krimigis; Ralph L. McNutt; Jim M. Raines; Menelaos Sarantos; Sean C. Solomon; Tielong Zhang; Thomas H. Zurbuchen

doi:10.1029/2009GL037876

MESSENGER and Venus Express observations of the solar wind interaction with Venus

James A. Slavin
, Mario H. Acuña
, Brian J. Anderson
, Stas Barabash
, Mehdi Benna
, Scott A. Boardsen
, Markus Fraenz
, George Gloeckler
, Robert E. Gold
, George C. Ho
, Haje Korth
, Stamatios M. Krimigis
, Ralph L. McNutt
, Jim M. Raines
, Menelaos Sarantos
, Sean C. Solomon
, Tielong Zhang
, Thomas H. Zurbuchen

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

At 23:08 UTC on 5 June 2007 the MESSENGER spacecraft reached its closest approach altitude of 338 km 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.

Original language	English
Article number	L09106
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL037876
State	Published - 16 May 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Slavin, J. A., Acuña, M. H., Anderson, B. J., Barabash, S., Benna, M., Boardsen, S. A., Fraenz, M., Gloeckler, G., Gold, R. E., Ho, G. C., Korth, H., Krimigis, S. M., McNutt, R. L., Raines, J. M., Sarantos, M., Solomon, S. C., Zhang, T., & Zurbuchen, T. H. (2009). MESSENGER and Venus Express observations of the solar wind interaction with Venus. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(9), Article L09106. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL037876

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