The interaction of the atmosphere of Enceladus with Saturn's plasma

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5766, 2006, Pages 1409-1412

  Tokar, R L ^a   Johnson, R E ^b   Hill, T W ^c   Pontius, D H ^d   Kurth, W S ^e   Crary, F J ^f   Young, D T ^f   Thomsen, M F ^a   Reisenfeld, D B ^g   Coates, A J ^h   Lewis, G R ^h   Sittler, E C ⁱ   Gurnett, D A ^e  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

CHARGE EXCHANGE; ENCELADUS; ION FORMATION; MASS LOADING; SATURN'S PLASMA;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

ION;

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATURN; SPECTROMETER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CASSINI PLASMA SPECTROMETER; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MASS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETER;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 33644860296     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121061     Document Type: Article

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13. We wish to thank the large number of scientists and engineers on the CAPS and RPWS teams who made the results reported here possible, particularly L. K. Gilbert for help in the production of Fig. 3 and M. Dougherty of the Cassini magnetometer (MAG) team for graciously providing MAG data. The work at Los Alamos was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. The work of U.S. coauthors was supported by Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract 1243218 with Southwest Research Institute and contract 961152 with the University of Iowa. Work in the United Kingdom was supported by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Cassini is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.