Farside explorer: Unique science from a mission to the farside of the moon

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 529-585

  Mimoun, David ^a   Wieczorek, Mark A ^b   Alkalai, Leon ^c   Banerdt, W Bruce ^c   Baratoux, David ^d,e   Bougeret, Jean Louis ^f   Bouley, Sylvain ^g   Cecconi, Baptiste ^f   Falcke, Heino ^h,i   Flohrer, Joachim ^j   Garcia, Raphael F ^d,e   Grimm, Robert ^k   Grott, Matthias ^j   Gurvits, Leonid ^l,m   Jaumann, Ralf ^j   Johnson, Catherine L ^n,o   Knapmeyer, Martin ^j   Kobayashi, Naoki ^p   Konovalenko, Alexander ^q   Lawrence, David ^r   Feuvre, Mathieu Le ^s   Lognonné, Philippe ^b   Neal, Clive ^t   Oberst, Jürgen ^j   Olsen, Nils ^u   Röttgering, Huub ^v   Spohn, Tilman ^j   Vennerstrom, Susanne ^u   Woan, Graham ^w   Zarka, Philippe ^x   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^e IRAP   (France)

^f OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^g Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^j GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^k SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE   (Netherlands)

^m DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^o PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^q INSTITUTE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY   (Ukraine)

^r JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^u TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^v LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^w UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

more..

Author keywords

ESA's Cosmic Vision program; Farside; Geophysics; Impact flux; Moon; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860221035     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-011-9252-3     Document Type: Article

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