Complex structure within Saturn's infrared aurora

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7219, 2008, Pages 214-217

  Stallard, Tom ^a   Miller, Steve ^b   Lystrup, Makenzie ^b   Achilleos, Nicholas ^b   Bunce, Emma J ^a   Arridge, Christopher S ^c   Dougherty, Michele K ^d   Cowley, Stan W H ^a   Badman, Sarah V ^a   Talboys, Dean L ^a   Brown, Robert H ^e   Baines, Kevin H ^f   Buratti, Bonnie J ^f   Clark, Roger N ^g   Sotin, Christophe ^f   Nicholson, Phil D ^h   Drossart, Pierre ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; COMPLEXITY; HYDROGEN; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATURN; SOLAR WIND;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 56249102776     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07440     Document Type: Article

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