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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 111, Issue A6, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011519
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The first set of near-equatorial occultations of the Saturn ionosphere was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft between May and September of 2005. The occultations occurred at near-equatorial latitudes, between 10 degrees N and 10 degrees S, at solar zenith angles from about 84 degrees to 96 degrees. The entry observations correspond to dusk conditions and the exit ones to dawn. An initial look at the data indicates that the average peak densities are lower and the peak altitude higher at dawn than at dusk, possibly the result of ionospheric decay during the night hours. There are also significant differences between individual dawn and dusk occultations; the initial thought is that this variation must be connected to changes in the water inflow into the upper atmosphere and/or variations in the particle impact ionization rates.
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