Observations of molecular oxygen ions in Saturn's inner magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Martens, Hilary R ^a   Reisenfeld, Daniel B ^a   Williams, John D ^a   Johnson, Robert E ^b   Smith, H Todd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c JHU/APL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONS; MAGNETOSPHERE; OXYGEN; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CASSINI PLASMA SPECTROMETERS; INNER MAGNETOSPHERES; ION MASSES; ION POPULATIONS; REFINED ANALYSIS; RELATIVE DENSITIES;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

IONIC COMPOSITION; MAGNETOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATURN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETER;

RHEA;

EID: 58249085976     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035433     Document Type: Article

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