Planetary Ionospheres

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2188s&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2188. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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Most planets and many satellites in our solar system are surrounded by envelopes of gravitationally bound gases. The interaction of solar radiation and charged particles of solar wind and planetary magnetospheric origin with these gases produces weak IONIZATION that creates planetary ionospheres embedded within the more dense PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. Additional sources of ionization which are relat...

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