Planetary magnetic fields: Achievements and prospects

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 651-664

  Stevenson, David J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamos; Magnetism; Planets

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FLUXES; CALLISTO; DYNAMO ACTION; DYNAMO THEORIES; DYNAMOS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY SOURCE; FIELD AMPLITUDES; FLUID DENSITIES; FLUID REGIONS; GALILEAN SATELLITES; GANYMEDE; GAS GIANT; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; INDUCED FIELD; INNER CORE; INTERNAL FIELD; IONIC FLUIDS; JUPITERS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE CORE; LIQUID CORES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NEPTUNE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLANETARY MISSION; PLANETARY ROTATION; SILICATE MANTLES; SOLID CORE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; THERMAL HISTORY; WIEDEMANN-FRANZ LAW;

ASTEROIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUIDS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MERCURY (METAL); METRIC SYSTEM; MOON; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SILICATES;

DC GENERATORS;

EID: 77954384690     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-009-9572-z     Document Type: Article

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