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Fig. 8.

From: The orientation of Titan’s dayside ionosphere and its effects on Titan’s plasma interaction

Fig. 8.

This figure shows the Log of the net radial ionospheric ion flux through a sphere at 2500 km altitude for each case, case 1 (A), case 2 (B) and case 3 (C). Negative values indicate the radial ion flux is directed towards Titan. Qualitatively each the results for each case are similar to each other. The ions are escaping from the poles and the anti-Saturn facing hemisphere. Ions are moving toward titan in the Saturn facing hemisphere. There is little ionospheric ion flux through the downstream quadrant of the Saturn facing hemisphere.

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