Hot carbon densities in the exosphere of Venus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A10, 2004, Pages

  Liemohn, Michael W ^a   Fox, Jane L ^b   Nagy, Andrew F ^a   Fang, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Exosphere; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749106704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010643     Document Type: Article

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