Plasma observations at Io with the Galileo spacecraft

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5286, 1996, Pages 394-395

  Frank, L A ^a   Paterson, W R ^a   Ackerson, K L ^a   Vasyliunas, V M ^b   Coroniti, F V ^c   Bolton, S J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; IONS; JUPITER; MAGNETICS; OXYGEN; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 0029852516     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5286.394     Document Type: Article

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19. We thank the Galileo project personnel at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for obtaining the plasma observations. The research at the University of Iowa was supported in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract JPL-958778.