Experiments on dust transport in plasma to investigate the origin of the lunar horizon glow

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wang, X ^a   Horanyi M ^a   Robertson, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 68749103666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013983     Document Type: Article

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