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Michelle F. Thomsen
Senior Scientist Emeritus, Planetary Science Institute
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PERSPECTIVES OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENTISTS
21 october 2022
Michelle F. Thomsen

This is the story of my launch into space physics, including how I was rescued from early discouragement by the excitement of a planetary encounter...

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Simultaneous UV Images and High‐Latitude Particle and Field Measurements During an Auroral Dawn Storm at Jupiter
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
24 november 2021
Robert W. Ebert, Thomas K. Greathouse, George B. C...

We present multi‐instrument Juno observations on day‐of‐year 86, 2017 that link particles and fields in Jupiter's polar magnetosp...

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Survey of Saturn’s magnetopause and bow shock positions over the entire Cassini mission: boundary statistical properties, and exploration of associated upstream conditions
MAGNETOSPHERES IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM II POSTERS
spa-magnetospheric physics | 16 december 2020
Caitriona M. Jackman, Michelle F. Thomsen, Michele...
The Cassini spacecraft orbited the planet Saturn from July 2004 – September 2017, and its varied orbital trajectory took it across the magnetopause an...
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Inflow Speed Analysis of Interchange Injections in Saturn's Magnetosphere
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
14 september 2020
Chris Paranicas, Michelle F. Thomsen, Peter Kollma...

During its more than 13 years in orbit, the Cassini spacecraft detected a large number of plasma and energetic charged particle injections in ...

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Survey of Ion Properties in Jupiter's Plasma Sheet: Juno JADE‐I Observations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
14 april 2020
Thomas K. Kim, Robert W. Ebert, Philip W. Valek, F...

This study presents a survey of ion flow speed, density, temperature, and composition observed by the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment Ion (...

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Chandra Observations of Jupiter's X‐ray Auroral Emission During Juno Apojove 2017
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
26 march 2020
Dale Weigt, Caitriona M. Jackman, William Dunn, Ra...

Jupiter's auroral X‐rays have been observed for 40 years with an unknown driver producing quasiperiodic emission, concentrated into auro...

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Magnetotail Reconnection at Jupiter: A Survey of Juno Magnetic Field Observations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
11 march 2020
Marissa F. Vogt, John E. Connerney, Gina A. DiBrac...

At Jupiter, tail reconnection is thought to be driven by an internal mass loading and release process called the Vasyliunas cycle. Galileo data hav...

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Method to Derive Ion Properties From Juno JADE Including Abundance Estimates for O+ and S2+
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
05 february 2020
Thomas K. Kim, Robert W. Ebert, Philip W. Valek, F...

The Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment Ion sensor (JADE‐I) on Juno is a plasma instrument that measures the energy‐per‐charg...

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