Interplanetary dust distribution and temporal variability of Mercury's atmospheric Na

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Kameda, Shingo ^b   Yoshikawa, Ichiro ^c   Kagitani, Masato ^a   Okano, Shoichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DUST; MERCURY (METAL); SODIUM; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SUN;

HELIOCENTRIC DISTANCES; INTERPLANETARY DUST; LOW CORRELATION; MERCURY ORBIT; SOLAR FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE; SOURCE PROCESS; SUNSPOT NUMBER; SYMMETRY PLANES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; ZODIACAL LIGHT;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

INTERPLANETARY DUST; MERCURY (PLANET); PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SODIUM; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SUNSPOT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 70350033646     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039036     Document Type: Article

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