Composition, clouds, and origin of Jupiter's atmosphere - A case for deep multiprobes into giant planets

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 544, 2004, Pages 57-62

  Atreya, Sushil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INERT GASES; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PLANETS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SPACE PROBES; SPACE RESEARCH; TROPOSPHERE;

DEEP MULTIPROBES; EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS; GALILEO PROBES; JUPITER;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 1542336885     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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