Characteristics of Saturn's FUV airglow from limb-viewing spectra obtained with Cassini-UVIS

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 270-283

  Gustin, Jacques ^a,b   Stewart, Ian ^b   Gérard, Jean Claude ^a   Esposito, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Saturn; Spectroscopy; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957259584     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.031     Document Type: Article

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