Jupiter's ionosphere: Results from the first Galileo radio occultation experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2107-2110

  Hinson, D P ^a   Flasar, F M ^b   Kliore, A J ^c   Schinder, P J ^b,d   Twicken, J D ^a   Herrera, R G ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; IONOSPHERE; PLANETS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE PROBES;

GALILEO RADIO OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 0031237420     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01608     Document Type: Article

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