Surface and sub-surface electrical measurement of Titan with the PWA-HASI experiment on HUYGENS

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1697-1704

  Hamelin, M ^a,b   Aydogar, O ^c   Bianchini, G ^d   Brown, V ^e   Falkner, P ^f   Fulchignoni, M ^g   Jernej, I ^c   Jeronimo, J M ^e   Grard, R ^f   Lopez Moreno J J ^e   Molina Cuberos, G ^e   Rodrigo, R ^e   Schwingenschuh, K ^c   Svedhem, H ^f  

^a Ctr d'Etud Environnements T   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c Österr Akad der Wiss ^*  (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^f Solar System Department ESA ESTEC   (Netherlands)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PROBES; SPACECRAFT;

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; MUTUAL IMPEDANCE PROBE; PERMITTIVITY WAVES AND ALTIMETRY EXPERIMENT; SURFACE SCIENCE PACKAGE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 0033717905     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00113-7     Document Type: Article

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