How much oxygen is too much? Constraining Saturn's ring atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 108-119

  Farmer, Alison J ^a,b   Goldreich, Peter ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Institute for Advanced Study ^*  (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionospheres; magnetosphere; rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147193496     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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