First in situ observation of the Moon-originating ions in the Earth's Magnetosphere by MAP-PACE on SELENE (KAGUYA)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Tanaka, Takaaki ^a   Saito, Yoshifumi ^a   Yokota, Shoichiro ^a   Asamura, Kazushi ^a   Nishino, Masaki N ^a   Tsunakawa, Hideo ^b   Shibuya, Hidetoshi ^c   Matsushima, Masaki ^b   Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^d   Takahashi, Futoshi ^b   Fujimoto, Masaki ^a   Mukai, Toshifumi ^a   Terasawa, Toshio ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE; EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL; GROUND BASED; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; ION DETECTION; ION FLUXES; ION SPECIES; LUNAR ORBITER; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; PLASMA EFFECTS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SOLAR-PHOTON DRIVEN PROCESS; SOURCE PROCESS;

HELIUM; IONS; LUNAR MISSIONS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

MOON;

ION EXCHANGE; MAGNETOTAIL; MOON; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 72049120650     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040682     Document Type: Article

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