Scientific Results from the Swedish Viking Satellite: A 1988 Status Report.

摘要

The contributions of the Viking mission to space physics up to the early spring of 1988 are summarized in the following areas: global distribution of magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction, auroral morphology and substorm dynamics, heating and expulsion of ionspheric plasma into the magnetosphere, field-aligned acceleration into the ionosphere and wave generation. (With 64 refs.). (Atomindex citation 20:048467)