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Magnetometer
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Magnetometer---"MAG"
Although
the MAG can detect some of the effects of the solar wind
on the outer planets and moons, its primary job is to measure
changes in the Sun's magnetic field with distance and time,
to determine if each of the outer planets has a magnetic
field, and how the moons and rings of the outer planets
interact with those magnetic fields.
MAG Science Objectives:
- Measure
and analytically represent the planetary magnetic fields
of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- Determine
the magnetosphere structure of all the giant planets encountered.
Investigate the basic physical mechanisms and processes
involved both in interactions between the solar wind and
the magentosphere and in internal magnetospheric dynamics,
in correlative studies with other particles and fields
investigations.
- Investigate
the interactions of the satellites of these planets with
their magnetosphere/solar wind environments.
- Accurately
survey the interplanetary magnetic field beyond 1 AU and
continue and extend studies of large-scale characteristics
of the interplanetary medium.
- Continue
and extend studies of the physics of microscale phenomena
in the solar wind.
- Search
for the transition region between the interplanetary and
interstellar media, and if possible, investigate the magnetic
characteristics of the boundary region and measure the
galactic magnetic field and its variations.
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