Rarefied Gas Model of Io's Sublimation-Driven Atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 370-383

  Austin, J Victor ^a   Goldstein, David B ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; Dynamics; Io; Satellites; Satellites of Jupiter; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000700435     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6466     Document Type: Article

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