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The Sun-Saturn Connection

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The Near-Saturn Magnetic Field Environment

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This chapter summarises the large-scale structure and average properties of the solar wind in the near-Saturn environment. An introduction to Saturn’s magnetosphere will follow, emphasising on its uniqueness in parameter range and from which the motivation of this thesis is derived.

This chapter is an enhanced version of a chapter from and original PhD thesis which is available Open Access from the respository https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/ of Imperial College London. The original chapter was distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this license to share adapted material derived from this book or parts of it. The Creative Commence license does not apply to this enhanced chapter, but only to the original chapter of the thesis.

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Sulaiman, A.H. (2017). The Sun-Saturn Connection. In: The Near-Saturn Magnetic Field Environment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49292-6_2

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