CASSINI RPWS:
RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE SCIENCE

Cassini-Huygens, a joint U.S.-European mission to Saturn and its moon Titan, was launched October 15, 1997, flew past the planets Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, and entered Saturn orbit July 1, 2004. One of the major scientific instruments aboard is RPWS which is gathering data for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science investigation. From November 1990 to October 2015, Donald A. Gurnett was the Principal Investigator for the Cassini RPWS team. On October 20, 2015, at Prof Gurnett's request NASA transferred the responsibilities of the RPWS team Principal Investigator to William S. Kurth. Both Prof. Gurnett and Dr. Kurth are at The University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, where much of the flight hardware and software was developed.

News

• NASA JPL, Cassini: End Of Mission
• Cassini Vanishes Into Saturn, Its Mission Celebrated and Mourned; New York Times, Sept. 14-15, 2017; PDF version
• Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale, NASA/JPL news release, July 24, 2017.
• Cassini Finds 'The Big Empty' Close to Saturn
• The Sounds of Lightning at Saturn -- Audio/Animation
• Eerie Sounds and Bizarre Features of Saturn's Radio Emissions -- Audio/Animation
• Ring plane crossing -- Audio
• Cassini Encounters Saturn's Bow Shock -- Audio/Animation
• Radio Rotation of Saturn from Cassini RPWS Measurements -- Audio/Animation

Saturn Longitude System 4 tool

Cassini RPWS Information

• Objectives
• Investigators
• RPWS Operations Team
• Publications - links
• Presentations
• Access to Data
• Outreach Activities
• Meetings
• Instrument Images

• RPWS Team Page
• MAPS Working Group Page

More Cassini Information

• Cassini-Huygens: Mission to Saturn & Titan
• Cassini Information from NSSDC
• Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) at SwRI
• Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) at MPI Heidelberg
• Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) at Johns Hopkins APL
• Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
• Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) at The University of Arizona
• UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) at LASP

Other Web Resources

• Space Audio
• Radio and Plasma Wave Group
• Other Research Groups in the Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Space Science Links
• University of Iowa Links

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