The interaction between the magnetosphere of saturn and titan's ionosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 6151-6160

  Nagy, Andrew F ^a   Liu, Yifan ^a   Hansen, Kenneth C ^a   Kabin, Konstantin ^c   Gombosi, Tamas I ^a   Combi, Michael R ^a   DeZeeuw, Darren L ^a   Powell, Kenneth G ^a   Kliore, Arvydas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0002986081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000ja000183     Document Type: Article

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