Plasma convection in Saturn's outer magnetosphere determined from ions detected by the Cassini INCA experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kane, Mark ^a   Mitchell, D G ^b   Carbary, J F ^b   Krimigis, S M ^b   Crary, F J ^c  

^a RCG Inc   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; IONS; ORBITS; PLANETS; PLASMAS;

HOT HYDROGEN; MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA; PLASMA CONVECTION;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

ANISOTROPY; HYDROGEN; ION; MAGNETOSPHERE; OXYGEN; PLASMA; SATURN;

EID: 44249127053     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032342     Document Type: Article

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