Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 654-656

  Zhang, T L ^a,h   Delva, M ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Auster, H U ^b   Carr, C ^c   Russell, C T ^d   Barabash, S ^e   Balikhin, M ^f   Kudela, K ^g   Berghofer, G ^a   Biernat, H K ^a   Lammer, H ^a   Lichtenegger, H ^a   Magnes, W ^a   Nakamura, R ^a   Schwingenschuh, K ^a   Volwerk, M ^a   Voros Z ^a   Zambelli, W ^a   Fornacon, K H ^b   Glassmeier, K H ^b   Richter, I ^b   Balogh, A ^c   Schwarzl, H ^d   Pope, S A ^f   Shi, J K ^h   Wang, C ^h   Motschmann, U ^b   Lebreton, J P ⁱ   more..

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; VENUS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EID: 36749075597     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06026     Document Type: Article

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