Evidence for temporal variability of Enceladus' gas jets: Modeling of Cassini observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Saur, Joachim ^a   Schilling, Nico ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^a   Strobel, Darrell F ^b   Simon, Sven ^a,c   Dougherty, Michele K ^d   Russell, Christopher T ^e   Pappalardo, Robert T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ACTIVITY LOCATIONS; CASSINI; CASSINI SPACECRAFT; ENCELADUS; GAS JETS; GAS PLUMES; MAGNETIC FIELD DATUMS; MASS LOSS RATES; MASS LOSSES; NEUTRAL DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; TIME VARIABILITIES;

MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; JET FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 58249093424     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035811     Document Type: Article

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