Morphology of the ultraviolet Io footprint emission and its control by Io's location

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Gérard, Jean Claude ^a   Saglam, Adem ^a   Grodent, Denis ^a   Clarke, John T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947632508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011327     Document Type: Article

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