Pumping out the atmosphere of Mars through solar wind pressure pulses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Edberg, N J T ^a,b   Nilsson, H ^b   Williams, A O ^a   Lester, M ^a   Milan, S E ^a   Cowley, S W H ^a   Franz M ^c   Barabash, S ^b   Futaana, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; COROTATING INTERACTION REGIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; MARS EXPRESS; SOLAR WIND PRESSURE; WIND CONDITIONS;

OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLAR WIND;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 79951791543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041814     Document Type: Article

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