An overview of radar soundings of the martian ionosphere from the Mars Express spacecraft

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1335-1346

  Gurnett, D A ^a   Huff, R L ^a   Morgan, D D ^a   Persoon, A M ^a   Averkamp, T F ^a   Kirchner, D L ^a   Duru, F ^a   Akalin, F ^a   Kopf, A J ^a   Nielsen, E ^b   Safaeinili, A ^c   Plaut, J J ^c   Picardi, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ionosphere radar sounding; Mars; Mars ionosphere

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ORBITS; RADAR;

IONOSPHERE RADAR SOUNDING; MARS IONOSPHERE;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 41349119807     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.062     Document Type: Article

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