Ring current at Saturn: Energetic particle pressure in Saturn's equatorial magnetosphere measured with Cassini/MIMI

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Sergis, N ^a   Krimigis, S M ^a,b   Mitchell, D G ^b   Hamilton, D C ^c   Krupp, N ^d   Mauk, B M ^b   Roelof, E C ^b   Dougherty, M ^e  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETOMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

CHARGE ENERGY MASS SPECTROMETER (CHEMS); ENERGETIC PARTICLE PRESSURE; EQUATORIAL MAGNETOSPHERE; LOW ENERGY MAGNETOSPHERIC MEASURMENTS SYSTEM (LEMMS); MAGNETIC PRESSURE; MAGNETOSPHERIC IMAGING INSTRUMENT (MIMI); SATURN;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

ION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 34347217827     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029223     Document Type: Article

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