Enceladus' water vapor plume

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5766, 2006, Pages 1422-1425

  Hansen, Candice J ^a   Esposito, L ^b   Stewart, A I F ^b   Colwell, J ^b   Hendrix, A ^a   Pryor, W ^d   Shemansky, D ^c   Wast, R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Space Environment Technologies ^*  (United States)

^d Central Arizona College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROGRAPHS; VAPORS; WATER;

ATOMIC OXYGER; ENCELADUS; SATURN'S E RING; SATURNIAN SYSTEM; STELLAR OCCULTATIONS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

HYDROXYL GROUP; OXYGEN; WATER;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; GEOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOON; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GASES; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; WATER;

EID: 33644849197     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121254     Document Type: Article

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