Does the UVI on Polar detect cosmic snowballs?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3109-3112

  Parks, G ^a   Brittnacher, M ^a   Chen, L J ^a   Elsen, R ^a   McCarthy, M ^a   Germany, G ^b,d   Spann, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COSMOLOGY; SPACECRAFT; ASTROPHYSICS; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CAMERA SYSTEMS; DARK FEATURES; DAYGLOW; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; IONIZATION TRACK; OCCURRENCE PATTERN; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE;

PIXELS; SPACE RESEARCH;

COSMIC SNOWBALLS;

IMPACT EVENT; POLAR SNOWBALL; POLAR SPACECRAFT; ULTRAVIOLET IMAGER;

EID: 0031390997     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03005     Document Type: Article

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