Plume ionosphere of Enceladus as seen by the Cassini ion and neutral mass spectrometer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Cravens, T E ^a   McNutt Jr , R L ^b   Waite Jr , J H ^c   Robertson, I P ^a   Luhmann, J G ^d   Kasprzak, W ^e   Ip, W H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASSINI; CASSINI SPACECRAFT; ENCELADUS; ION AND NEUTRAL MASS SPECTROMETERS; ION MASS; ION SPECIES; MASS NUMBERS; NEUTRAL CHEMISTRY; WATER CLUSTER;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

IONS;

IONOSPHERE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLUME;

EID: 67449113427     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037811     Document Type: Article

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