IUE's detection of tenuous SO2 frost on Ganymede and its rapid time variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3117-3120

  Domingue, Deborah L ^a,d   Lane, Arthur L ^b   Beyer, Ross A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d JHU/APL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

PLANET SATELLITES; GANYMEDE; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME VARIABILITY;

PLANETS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 0032529784     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02386     Document Type: Article

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