Cassini encounters with hot flow anomaly-like phenomena at Saturn's bow shock

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Masters, Adam ^a   Arridge, C S ^b,c   Dougherty, M K ^a   Bertucci, C ^a   Billingham, L ^a   Schwartz, S J ^a   Jackman, C M ^a   Bebesi, Z ^d   Coates, A J ^b,c   Thomsen, M F ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLANETS;

BOW SHOCK; HOT FLOW ANNOMALIES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

INTERPLANETARY DUST; ORBITAL FORCING; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 40849118318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032371     Document Type: Article

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