Hubble Space Telescope imaging of Jupiter's UV aurora during the Galileo orbiter mission

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue 3339, 1998, Pages 20217-20236

  Clarke, John T ^a   Ballester, Gilda ^a   Trauger, John ^b   Ajello, Joe ^b   Pryor, Wayne ^c   Tobiska, Kent ^b   Connerney, J E P ^d   Gladstone, G Randall ^e   Waite, J H ^e   Jaffel, Lotfi Ben ^f   Gérard, Jean Claude ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; JUPITER;

EID: 0032581840     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98je01130     Document Type: Article

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