Supersonic winds in Jupiter's aurorae

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6732, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Rego, Daniel ^a   Achilleos, Nicholas ^a   Stallard, Tom ^a   Miller, Steve ^a   Prangé, Renée ^b   Dougherty, Michele ^c   Joseph, Robert D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MAGNETIC FIELD; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; WIND;

EID: 0033551321     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20121     Document Type: Article

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