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INSTRUMENT: PLASMA SCIENCE EXPERIMENT
SPACECRAFT: VOYAGER 2
Instrument Information
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Instrument Id : PLS Instrument Host Id : VG2 Principal Investigator : JOHN W. BELCHER Pi Pds User Id : JBELCHER Instrument Name : PLASMA SCIENCE EXPERIMENT Instrument Type : PLASMA INSTRUMENT Build Date : 1973-01-01 Instrument Mass : 9.900000 Instrument Length : UNK Instrument Width : UNK Instrument Height : UNK Instrument Serial Number : SN001 Instrument Manufacturer Name : MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY
Instrument Description
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The Voyager Plasma Science experiment consists of four modulated grid Faraday Cups, three (A,B,C) of which are positioned about the Telemetry Antenna Axis and generally point toward the Earth with the fourth (D) at a right angle to this direction. Ion currents are sampled simultaneously in all four cups, electrons in the D-cup only. The instrument has an energy/charge range of 10-5950 V. Data is taken in four ways, high and low resolution ion modes and high and low energy electron modes, with energy resolution varying between 3.6 and 29%. The integration time for each energy channel can be varied are used at Jupiter and Saturn and 0.93 and 0.21second integration times are used at Uranus and Neptune.
Supersonic flow can be observed only when one of the detectors points into the flow orientation allows determination of theplasma density, temperature, and velocity.
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