The Saturn hydrogen plume

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 1659-1670

  Shemansky, D E ^a   Liu, X ^a   Melin, H ^a  

^a Space Environment Technologies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Hydrogen; Magnetosphere; Saturn; Solar system

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERE; ATOMIC HYDROGEN; CASSINI SPACECRAFT; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS; ELECTRON EXCITATIONS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; EXOBASE; IMAGE MOSAIC; LOCAL TIME; NON-LTE; ORBITAL PLANES; PIXEL RESOLUTION; RATE PROCESS; RYDBERG; SATURN ORBIT INSERTION; TIME-SCALES; VOYAGER 1;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATOMS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; MAGNETOSPHERE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 70449657526     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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