Sources of sodium in the lunar exosphere: Modeling using ground-based observations of sodium emission and spacecraft data of the plasma

Icarus

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 364-374

  Sarantos, Menelaos ^a   Killen, Rosemary M ^a,b   Surjalal Sharma, A ^b   Slavin, James A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Moon

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EID: 75149149779     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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