Discovery of an aurora on Mars

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7043, 2005, Pages 790-794

  Bertaux, Jean Loup ^a   Leblanc, François ^a   Witasse, Olivier ^b   Quemerais, Eric ^a   Lilensten, Jean ^c   Stern, S A ^d   Sandel, B ^e   Korablev, Oleg ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

AURORAE; MAGNETIC POLES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ION; PROTON;

AURORA; MARS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

VENUSIA;

EID: 20544464366     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03603     Document Type: Article

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