ESA Science & Technology - Introduction to the Ulysses encounter with Jupiter

Publication date: 01 December 1993

Authors: Smith, E.J., Wenzel, K.-P.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 98
Issue: A12
Page: pp. 21111-21128
Year: 1993

The Ulysses spacecraft encountered Jupiter in February 1992, passing within 6.31 radii of the planet. For approximately 8 days it was inside the Jovian magnetosphere, and for several days before and after that, Ulysses was in the interaction regions formed by the solar wind (the magnetosheath and boundary layer).