Model of field aligned potential drops near Io

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 833-836

  Cheng, A F ^a   Paranicas, C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAMS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOON; PLANETS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FLUX;

FIELD ALIGNED POTENTIAL DROPS; ACCELERATION PROCESS; DENSE PLASMA; FIELD-ALIGNED ELECTRONS; GALILEO SPACECRAFT; MASS LOADINGS; POTENTIAL DROP; TOTAL ENERGY REQUIREMENT; ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; DROPS;

FIELD ALIGNED POTENTIAL;

IO;

EID: 0032520573     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00407     Document Type: Article

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