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Saturn's ring current and inner magnetosphere

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The Voyager 1 magnetic field observations at Saturn reveal an equatorial system of (eastward) azimuthal currents, very similar in certain respects to that responsible for the jovian magnetodisk.

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    J. E. P. Connerney, M. H. Acuña & N. F. Ness

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Connerney, J., Acuña, M. & Ness, N. Saturn's ring current and inner magnetosphere. Nature 292, 724–726 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/292724a0

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