Geometry of the plasma sheet in the midnight-to-dawn sector of the Jovian magnetosphere: Plasma observations with the Galileo spacecraft

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 869-872

  Vasyliunas, Vytenis M ^a   Frank, Louis A ^b   Ackerson, Kent L ^b   Paterson, William R ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAGNETOSPHERE; MODULATION; PLASMA SHEATHS; SPACECRAFT; SURFACE WAVES; WIND EFFECTS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICS; PLANETS; PLASMAS;

EQUATORIAL PLANES; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GALILEO SPACECRAFT; JOVIAN MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; PROPAGATION SPEED; SURFACE WAVE AMPLITUDE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE;

JUPITER; SPACECRAFT GALILEO;

EID: 0031121613     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00757     Document Type: Article

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