Titan's magnetic field signature during the first Cassini encounter

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5724, 2005, Pages 992-995

  Backes, Heiko ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^a   Dougherty, Michele K ^b   Achilleos, Nicholas ^b   André, Nicolas ^c   Arridge, Christopher S ^b   Bertucci, Cesar ^b   Jones, Geraint H ^d   Khurana, Krishan K ^e   Russell, Christopher T ^e   Wennmacher, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT;

FIELD ORIENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD SIGNATURE; SATURNIAN MAGNETOSPHERE; TITAN;

PLANETS;

TITAN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETICS; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

SATURNIA;

EID: 20844445961     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109763     Document Type: Article

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28. We acknowledge the superb work done by the technical and data processing staff of the MAG team. H.B., F.M.N., and A.W. are supported by the DLR (Germany). M.K.D., C.B., C.S.A., and N. Achilleos are supported by PPARC (UK). N. André is supported by CNES (France). This research was performed while G.H.J. held a National Research Council Research Associateship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The research at the University of California, Los Angeles, was supported by NASA under a grant administered by JPL.