Galileo evidence for rapid interchange transport in the Io torus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2131-2134

  Thorne, R M ^a   Armstrong, T P ^b   Stone, S ^b   Williams, D J ^c   McEntire, R W ^c   Bolton, S J ^d   Gurnett, D A ^e   Kivelson, M G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA DENSITY; SPACE PROBES;

BROADBAND LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IO PLASMA TORUS; RAPID PLASMA INTERCHANGE;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 0031236205     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01788     Document Type: Article

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