Analysis of a giant lightning storm on Saturn

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 528-544

  Fischer, G ^a   Kurth, W S ^a   Dyudina, U A ^b   Kaiser, M L ^c   Zarka, P ^d   Lecacheux, A ^d   Ingersoll, A P ^b   Gurnett, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Lightning; Radio observations; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548690334     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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