Influence of plasma ions on source rates for the lunar exosphere during passage through the Earth's magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sarantos, Menelaos ^a,b   Killen, Rosemary M ^a   Sharma, A Surjalal ^a   Slavin, James A ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DESORPTION; IONS; MOON; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; TELESCOPES;

ELECTRON FLUX; EXOSPHERE; SOLAR TELESCOPE;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

DESORPTION; ELECTRON; MAGNETOSPHERE; MOON; PLASMA; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 44249104265     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032310     Document Type: Article

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