Titan interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere: Mass loading and ionopause location

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 1278, 2004, Pages 377-394

  Sittler Jr , E C ^a   Hartle, R E ^a   Vinas A F ^a   Johnson, R E ^b   Smith, H T ^b   Mueller Wodard, I ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; PLASMAS; POSITIVE IONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

IONOPAUSE LOCATION; MASS LOADING; SATURN; TITAN;

SATELLITES;

EID: 23844509914     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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