The auroral footprint of Enceladus on Saturn

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7343, 2011, Pages 331-333

  Pryor, Wayne R ^a,b   Rymer, Abigail M ^c   Mitchell, Donald G ^c   Hill, Thomas W ^d   Young, David T ^e   Saur, Joachim ^f   Jones, Geraint H ^g,h   Jacobsen, Sven ^f   Cowley, Stan W H ⁱ   Mauk, Barry H ^c   Coates, Andrew J ^g   Gustin, Jacques ^j   Grodent, Denis ^j   Gérard, Jean Claude ^j   Lamy, Laurent ^k   Nichols, Jonathan D ⁱ   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^c,l   Esposito, Larry W ^m   Dougherty, Michele K ⁿ   Jouchoux, Alain J ^m   Stewart, A Ian F ^m   McClintock, William E ^m   Holsclaw, Gregory M ^m   Ajello, Joseph M ^o   Colwell, Joshua E ^p   Hendrix, Amanda R ^o   Crary, Frank J ^e   Clarke, John T ^q   Zhou, Xiaoyan ^o   more..

^a Central Arizona College   (United States)

^b Planetary and Space Science Division   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^k UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^l BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁿ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^q USA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; EUROPA; GANYMEDE; IO; IONOSPHERE; JUPITER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; SATURN; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON BEAM; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79955457564     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09928     Document Type: Article

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