Ionospheric photoelectrons: Comparing Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1019-1027

  Coates, A J ^a,b   Tsang, S M E ^a,b   Wellbrock, A ^a,b   Frahm, R A ^c   Winningham, J D ^c   Barabash, S ^d   Lundin, R ^d   Young, D T ^c   Crary, F J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Earth; Ionosphere; Mars; Photoelectrons; Titan; Venus

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; CASSINI; CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION; ELECTRON SPECTROMETER; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MARS; MARS-EXPRESS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM; PLANETARY IONOSPHERES; REMOTE LOCATION; SOLAR PHOTONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TITAN; VENUS; VENUS EXPRESS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 79955601485     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.07.016     Document Type: Article

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