First measurements of the ionospheric plasma escape from Mars
Lundin, R. ; Zakharov, A. ; Pellinen, R. ; Borg, H. ; Hultqvist, B. ; Pissarenko, N. ; Dubinin, E. M. ; Barabash, S. W. ; Liede, I. ; Koskinen, H.
[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1989
[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1989
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] Previous missions to Mars have shown (see, for example, ref. 1) that the interaction with the solar wind forms both a bow shock and a magnetopause. There is2 a smooth transition from the shocked solar-wind plasma to the hot plasma cushion above the ionosphere, which closely resembles the solar-wind ...
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