Observations of the lunar plasma wake from the WIND spacecraft on December 27, 1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1255-1258

  Ogilvie, K W ^a   Steinberg, J T ^b   Fitzenreiter, R J ^a   Owen, C J ^a   Lazarus, A J ^b   Farrell, W M ^a   Torbert, R B ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MOON; SPACECRAFT; SUPERSONIC FLOW; WAKES; ION BEAMS; PLASMA DENSITY; SOLAR WIND;

LUNAR PLASMA WAKE; PLASMA DEPLETION; PLASMA INSTRUMENT; RAREFACTION WAVE; SOLAR WIND;

PLASMA FLOW; MOON;

DIELECTRIC BODY; HIGH DATA RATE; LUNAR WAKES; ORDER 2; PLASMA INSTRUMENTS; PLASMA WAKES; RAREFACTION WAVES; WIND SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030141538     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01069     Document Type: Article

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