Abstract
Pick‐up ion measurements that could be made during the interplanetary cruise of the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn offer a unique opportunity to determine the orientation of the upwind‐downwind axis of the heliosphere. The method and results of a feasibility study are presented. The study shows that pick‐up oxygen is the best candidate for such a measurement. Model computations are used to predict the actual pick‐up oxygen fluxes which instruments on the Cassini spacecraft would see along its trajectory for several currently debated upwind‐downwind axis orientations.
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