The large vertical extent and diurnal variation in the electron density profile of Jupiter observed in radio occultation by Voyager 1 imply a homopause eddy diffusion coefficient of 1ā3Ć105 cm2 sā1 and an exospheric temperature of about 1,300 K.
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Atreya, S., Donahue, T. & Waite, J. An interpretation of the Voyager measurement of jovian electron density profiles. Nature 280, 795ā796 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280795a0
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