Europa's surface composition and sputter-produced ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3257-3260

  Johnson, R E ^a,b,d   Killen, R M ^c   Waite Jr , J H ^c   Lewis, W S ^c  

^a University of Virginia ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPA; ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPUTTER-PRODUCED IONOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CHARGED PARTICLES; ICE; IONOSPHERE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EUROPA;

EID: 0032172882     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02565     Document Type: Article

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