Temperatures and altitudes of Jupiter's ultraviolet aurora inferred from GHRS observations with the Hubble Space Telescope

Icarus

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 189-201

  Kim, Y H ^a   Fox, J L ^b   Caldwell, John J ^c  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031185102     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5699     Document Type: Article

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