Articles | Volume 44, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-44-937-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-44-937-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Regular paper
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17 Sep 2026
Regular paper |
| 17 Sep 2026
| 17 Sep 2026
Flying through the plasmasphere to optimize low-energy ion measurements
Gabriella Stenberg Wieser
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Martin Wieser
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Stas Barabash
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Philipp Wittmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
Leif Kalla
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Markus Fränz
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
Elias Roussos
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
Audrey Vorburger
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Peter Wurz
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Jan-Erik Wahlund
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden
Pontus C. Brandt
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Yoshifumi Futaana
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Manabu Shimoyama
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Angèle Pontoni
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
André Galli
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Andreas Riedo
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
George Ho
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Donald G. Mitchell
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
George Clark
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Peter Kollmann
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Malamati Gkioulidou
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Leonardo Regoli
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Norbert Krupp
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Kazushi Asamura
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan
Esa Kallio
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Andrea Opitz
Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
Manuel Grande
Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
Andrew Coates
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College, London, United Kingdom
Geraint Jones
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College, London, United Kingdom
Theodoros Sarris
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Andrey Fedorov
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), CNES-CNRS-Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Nicolas André
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), CNES-CNRS-Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Ján Baláž
Institute of Experimental Physics SAS, Košice, Slovak Republic
Data sets
ESA-JUICE_LEGA-Special-Issue_v1.0,560 European Space Agency https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-2bb387d
Short summary
We used Juice flyby of Earth in August 2024 to evaluate the performance of the Jovian Plasma Dynamics and Composition analyzer (JDC). JDC measures positive and negative ions as well as electrons. When Juice arrives at Jupiter, one of the most challenging tasks for JDC is to record low energy ion populations. We used the data JDC recorded close to Earth, together with measurement in the laboratory on ground, to improve the future observations the sensor will make around Jupiter’s icy moons.
We used Juice flyby of Earth in August 2024 to evaluate the performance of the Jovian Plasma...
