Deep winds on Jupiter as measured by the Galileo probe

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6643, 1997, Pages 649-650

  Atkinson, David H ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^b   Seiff, Alvin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0030747405     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41718     Document Type: Article

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