Hot oxygen corona at Europa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4153-4155

  Nagy, Andrew F ^a   Kim, Jhoon ^b   Cravens, Thomas E ^c   Kliore, Arvydas J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONA;

ATOMS; DISSOCIATION; IONOSPHERE; OXYGEN; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALTITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; ATOMIC OXYGEN DENSITY; DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; ESCAPE RATE; HOT OXYGEN ATOMS; OXYGEN DENSITY; SOURCE TERMS; SPUTTERING RATE;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION; EXOSPHERE; HOT OXYGEN CORONA; LIOUVILLE'S THEOREM;

EID: 0032207213     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900139     Document Type: Article

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