Plasma flow in the magnetosphere of Ganymede

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1257-1260

  Eviatar, Aharon ^a,b   Cheng, Andrew F ^a   Paranicas, Chris ^a   Mauk, Barry H ^a   McEntire, Richard W ^a   Williams, Donald J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA FLOW; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ENERGETIC PARTICLES DETECTOR (EPD); CO-ROTATION; CONDUCTING OBJECTS; CONVECTIVE FLOW; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; GALILEO; GANYMEDE; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; WING MODELS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA FLOW;

GANYMEDE;

EID: 0032522309     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50867     Document Type: Article

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