Upper atmosphere and ionosphere of saturn

Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-201

  Nagy, Andrew F ^a   Kliore, Arvydas J ^b   Mendillo, Michael ^c   Miller, Steve ^d   Moore, Luke ^c   Moses, Julianne I ^e   Müller Wodarg, Ingo ^f   Shemansky, Don ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Space Environment Technologies ^*  (United States)

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EID: 77949849864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9217-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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