MESSENGER and Venus Express observations of the solar wind interaction with Venus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Slavin, James A ^c   Acuña, Mario H ^c   Anderson, Brian J ^a   Barabash, Stas ^b   Benna, Mehdi ^c   Boardsen, Scott A ^c   Fraenz, Markus ^d   Gloeckler, George ^e   Gold, Robert E ^a   Ho, George C ^a   Korth, Haje ^a   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^a   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^a   Raines, Jim M ^e   Sarantos, Menelaos ^c   Solomon, Sean C ^f   Zhang, Tielong ^g   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Carnegie Institution of Washington ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOW SHOCKS; EN-ROUTE; FLUX ROPES; HOT FLOW ANOMALY; INDUCED MAGNETOSPHERES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX TRANSPORT; MESSENGER SPACECRAFT; ORBIT INSERTION; SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TWO-POINT; UPSTREAM CONDITIONS; VENUS EXPRESS;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); SOLAR WIND;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

ANOMALY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOLAR WIND; VENUS;

EID: 68249160785     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037876     Document Type: Article

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