urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:fgm.p11 1.0 1.7.0.0 Product_Context 2016-10-01 1.0 extracted metadata from PDS3 catalog and modified to comply with PDS4 Information Model urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.p11::1.0 instrument_to_instrument_host Acuna, M.H., and N.F. Ness, The Pioneer 11 high field fluxgate magnetometer, Space Sci. Instrum., 1, 171-188, 1975. reference.ACUNA-NESS1975 Fimmel, R.O., W. Swindell, E. Burgess, Pioneer Odyssey, NASA SP-396, Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., 1977. reference.FIMMELETAL1977 FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER Magnetometer not applicable not applicable Instrument Overview =================== The High Field Fluxgate Magnetometer Experiment flown aboard the Pioneer 11 spacecraft was an extremely simple instrument used to extend the spacecraft's upper limit measurement capability by approximately an order of magnitude (from 0.14 mT to 1.00 mT) with minimum power and volume requirements. This magnetometer was designed to complement the low field measurements provided by a helium vector magnetometer and utilizes magnetic ring core sensors with bi-axial orthogonal sense coils. The instrument was a single range, triaxial fluxgate magnetometer capable of measuring fields of up to 1 mT along each orthogonal axis, with a maximum resolution of 1 microTesla. ['Instrument Overview' was adapted from ACUNA&NESS1975 p. 177.]