Saturn's hydrogen aurora: Wide field and planetary camera 2 imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue 3339, 1998, Pages 20237-20244

  Trauger, John T ^a   Clarke, John T ^b   Ballester, Gilda E ^b   Evans, Robin W ^a   Burrows, Christopher J ^c   Crisp, David ^a   Gallagher III, John S ^d   Griffiths, Richard E ^e   Hester, J Jeff ^f   Hoessel, John G ^d   Holtzman, Jon A ^g   Krist, John E ^c   Mould, Jeremy R ^h   Sahai, Raghvendra ^a   Scowen, Paul A ^f   Stapelfeldt, Karl R ^a   Watson, Alan M ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; SATURN;

EID: 0032581872     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98je01324     Document Type: Article

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