Jupiter's nightside airglow and aurora

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5848, 2007, Pages 229-231

  Gladstone, G Randall ^a   Stern, S Alan ^b   Slater, David C ^a   Versteeg, Maarten ^a   Davis, Michael W ^a   Retherford, Kurt D ^a   Young, Leslie A ^c   Steffl, Andrew J ^c   Throop, Henry ^c   Parker, Joel Wm ^c   Weaver, Harold A ^d   Cheng, Andrew F ^b   Orton, Glenn S ^e   Clarke, John T ^f   Nichols, Jonathan D ^f  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; AURORA; JUPITER; MAGNETOSPHERE; SPACECRAFT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; FIELD EMISSION; NIGHT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; JUPITER; MAGNETICS; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 35348880329     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147613     Document Type: Article

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