Galileo's close-up view of the Io sodium jet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3333-3336

  Burger, Matthew H ^a   Schneider, Nicholas M ^a   Wilson, Jody K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MOON; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; METAL IONS;

IO SODIUM JET;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

IO;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE; GALILEO IMAGES; GALILEO SPACECRAFT; JUPITER'S MAGNETOSPHERE; SODIUM IONS; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL PROFILES;

EID: 0033570612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003654     Document Type: Article

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