Detectability of lunar plasma clouds from SELENE radio occultations

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2369-2375

  Nabatov, A S ^a   Imamura, T ^b   Savich, N A ^a   Oyama, K I ^b   Noguchi, K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; LUNAR MISSIONS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA WAVES; WIND;

PLASMA CLOUDS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

MOON; PLASMA; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 0141673675     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00548-9     Document Type: Article

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