Venus tail ray observation near Earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1163-1166

  Grunwaldt H ^a   Neugebauer, M ^b   Hilchenbach, M ^a   Bochsler, P ^c   Hovestadt, D ^d   Burgi A ^d   Ipavich, F M ^e   Reiche, K U ^f   Axford, W I ^a   Balsiger, H ^c   Galvin, A B ^e   Geiss, J ^c   Gliem, F ^f   Gloeckler, G ^e   Hsieh, K C ^g   Kallenbach, R ^c   Klecker, B ^d   Livi, S ^a   Lee, M A ^h   Managadze, G G ⁱ   Marsch, E ^a   Mobius E ^h   Scholer, M ^d   Verigin, M I ⁱ   Wilken, B ^a   Wurz, P ^c   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

ⁱ Institute for Space Research   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IONOSPHERE; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN; PLANETS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPEED;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FLUX DENSITIES; LAGRANGIAN POINT; SOLAR WIND; VENUS TAIL RAY;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 0031139420     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01159     Document Type: Article

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