Solar flux variability of Mars' exosphere densities and temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Forbes, Jeffrey M ^a   Lemoine, Frank G ^b   Bruinsma, Sean L ^c   Smith, Michael D ^b   Zhang, Xiaoli ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT;

EXOSPHERE TEMPERATURES; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

COOLING; MARS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACECRAFT; THERMOSPHERE; VENUS;

EID: 41549097386     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031904     Document Type: Article

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