Investigation of the force balance in the Titan ionosphere: Cassini T5 flyby model/data comparisons

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 867-880

  Ulusen, D ^a   Luhmann, J G ^a   Ma, Y J ^b   Ledvina, S ^a   Cravens, T E ^c   Mandt, K ^d   Waite, J H ^d   Wahlund, J E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ionospheres; Saturn, Satellites; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049529631     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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