Europa's atmosphere, gas tori, and magnetospheric implications

Icarus

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 510-526

  Smyth, William H ^a   Marconi, Max L ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Prisma Basic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, structure; Europa; Jupiter, magnetosphere; Satellites, atmospheres

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645859899     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.10.019     Document Type: Article

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