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Extended atmospheres of outer planet satellites and cometsA major model documentation paper for cometary gas coronae and a second paper successfully applied the model to simulate the hydrogen Lyman-alpha coma of comet Kohoutek were completed and are discussed. New and very exciting data for the hydrogen distribution in the Saturn system obtained form earlier unreduced Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 data are preliminarily reviewed. This new data opens up a whole new series of investigations and indicate that Saturn's corona plays a major role in supplying hydrogen to the circumplanetary volume.
Document ID
19880009156
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Smyth, William H.
(Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Combi, Michael R.
(Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1987
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:181449
NASA-CR-181449
Report Number: NAS 1.26:181449
Report Number: NASA-CR-181449
Accession Number
88N18540
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-3966
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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