Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 661-662

  Russell, C T ^a   Zhang, T L ^b   Delva, M ^b   Magnes, W ^b   Strangeway, R J ^a   Wei, H Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLOUD; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; VENUS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LIGHTNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

EID: 36749061898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05930     Document Type: Article

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