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Mall et al. 1996
Mall, U., Fichtner, H., Hamilton, D.C. and Rucinski, D. (1996). Determination of the heliospheric axis orientation-An opportunity for the Cassini Mission to Saturn. Geophysical Research Letters 23: doi: 10.1029/96GL02927. issn: 0094-8276.

Pick-up ion measurements that could be made during the interplanetary cruise of the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn offer a unique opportunity to determine the orientation of the upwind-downwind axis of the heliosphere. The method and results of a feasibility study are presented. The study shows that pick-up oxygen is the best candidate for such a measurement. Model computations are used to predict the actual pick-up oxygen fluxes which instruments on the Cassini spacecraft would see along its trajectory for several currently debated upwind-downwind axis orientations. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1996

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Interplanetary Physics, Interstellar gas
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Geophysical Research Letters
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