The ion mass loading rate at Io

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 456-468

  Saur, Joachim ^a   Strobel, Darrell F ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^b   Summers, Michael E ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c George Mason University   (United States)

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EID: 0038103020     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00085-X     Document Type: Article

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