Characteristics of dust particles detected near Saturn's ring plane with the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave instrument

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 54, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 957-966

  Wang, Z ^a   Gurnett, D A ^a   Averkamp, T F ^a   Persoon, A M ^a   Kurth, W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Ring plane; Saturn

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLANETS; PLASMA WAVES; SPACECRAFT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FIELD ANTENNAS; RING PLANE; SATURN; X-AXIS DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

DUST;

EID: 33746834048     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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