The possibility of studying the lunar ionosphere with the SELENE radio science experiment

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-390

  Imamura, Takeshi ^a   Oyama, Koh Ichiro ^a   Iwata, Takahiro ^a   Kono, Yusuke ^b   Matsumoto, Koji ^b   Liu, Qinghui ^b   Noda, Hirotomo ^b   Futaana, Yoshifumi ^c   Nabatov, Alexander ^d  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Lunar ionosphere; Radio science; SELENE

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLASMA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR WIND; ATMOSPHERE; MOON; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 46849108501     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352803     Document Type: Article

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