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INDEX abundances, 62 density, 244 accelerometer, 200 leading hemisphere, 245 accretion, 27, 52, 300 amino acid, 354 disk, 23, 29, 30, 52, 219 Amirani flow field, 309 efficiency, 52 ammonia, 22, 44, 59, 60, 63, 64, 73, 74, 79, 82, 86, 89, 91, 110, gas, 30, 31 117, 136, 137, 173, 291, 297, 299, 300 isolation mass, 28 abundance, 107 oligarchic growth, 28 depletion, 71 rapid, 29 ice, 68, 90-92, 100 rate, 27, 30 mixing ratio, 123 runaway, 28 photolysis, 72, 97 slow, 29 solid, 86 acetylene, 67, 129, 131, 132, 138 ammonia cloud, 71, 80, 82 Achilles, 264 ammonia hydrate, 297 Adastea, 673 ammonium hydrosulfide, 68, 72, 79, 83, 86, 89, 91, 100 adiabat ammonium hydrosulfide cloud, 79 dry, 116 ammonium salt, 67 moist, 116 amorphous ice, 7 4 adiabatic cooling, 80 Ampere's law, 540 adiabatic invariant, 622 Ananke, 265, 268 adiabatic mirroring, 651 angular momentum, 23, 27-29, 31, 122, 655 Adlinda, 417-419 Anshar Sulcus, 367, 374-376 Adrastea, 237, 241, 243, 244, 246, 247, 249, 254, 256, 258, 498, anticyclone, 114 671 Antilochus, 27 4 aeronomy, 190, 214 approach movies, 106 aerosol, 60, 67, 82, 83, 87, 91, 98, 109, 111, 463 aqueous alteration, 268 absorption, 149 Arbela Sulcus, 368, 376, 377 carbonaceous, 97 argon, 20, 26, 37, 74 density, 82 Ariel, 122 extinction, 95 arsenic, 67 formation, 98 arsine, 66, 67, 136 loading, 143 Asgard, 417-419 mixing ratio, 95 Asgard Basin, 401, 402 production, 151 asteroid, 451 SL9, 150 differentiated, 268 Agenor Linea, 337 main belt, 263, 271 airglow, 384 asthenosphere, 286 albedo, 91 asthenospheric flow, 366 bolometric, 402 geometric, 247, 402 astrobiology, 339 single scattering, 91, 99 Astypalaea Linea, 337 Alfven characteristic, 546, 550 atmosphere Alfven conductance, 477, 543, 545 composition, 59 Alfven speed, 174, 178, 541, 653 window, 60, 86 Alfvenwave, 520,521,531,539,542,544-546,554,600,650,653 Atmospheric Structure Instruments, 61, 185, 200 Alfvenwing, 520,523,525,530,539,541-543,545-547,549,550, aurora, 97, 139, 175, 185, 530, 595, 613, 617, 639 554 appearance, 646 Alfvenic current, 466, 653 dawn storm, 654 alkali, 465, 469, 474, 475, 497, 501, 502 main oval, 640, 641, 643-647, 649, 650, 653-657, 659-661, 664 alkali halide, 299 northern, 663 alkali metal, 44, 51 particles, 142 alkanes, 139 polar, 660, 661, 665 Allan deviation, 284 auroral allene, 134 chemistry, 142 Alpha Leo, 196 curtain, 646 aluminum, 293 decameter emission, 650 Amalthea, 237, 241-246, 249, 252, 256-258, 498, 596, 599, 671, electron 673, 675, 681, 682, 684 electrojet, 206, 213, 643 707 708 Index auroral (cont.) Callisto, 23, 29, 30, 248, 284, 294, 354, 355, 363, 367, 380, 383, emission, 131, 635, 642, 652, 661, 662 385, 388-390, 397, 428, 486, 488, 491, 503, 530, 584, 651 energy, 210, 213, 214 atmosphere, 471, 476, 477 enhancement, 196 core, 420 flare, 630 crater, 408, 410, 414, 436, 453 footprint, 97, 109, 650 crater chain, 272 haze, 142 dark hemisphere, 4 77 heating, 213 differentiation, 398 hot spot, 146, 196 dust, 236 ionosphere, 649 erosion, 410 kilometric radiation, 554, 641 exosphere, 400 oval, 96, 146, 205, 211-213, 475, 609 footprint, 653 particles, 97 gravity, 285 precipitation, 96, 598 gravity field, 420 region, 136 induced magnetic field, 420 spot, 571 interior, 281, 420, 421 storm, 648 ionosphere, 401 tail, 571 knob, 410-412, 417, 419, 420 zone, 191, 205 leading hemisphere, 400, 402 precipitation, 212 lithosphere, 415, 419, 420 Australian Telescope Compact Array, 177 north pole, 414 Automedon, 274 ocean, 282, 295 Avogadro's number, 81 pit, 409, 412 radar signature, 403 back scattering, 95 surface, 295, 333 Baldur Patera, 318 surface age, 272 ballistic plume, 163 trailing hemisphere, 400-402, 531 banana cloud, 567 Caloris Basin, 417, 418 band, 106 carbon, 21, 37, 59, 69, 72, 74, 354, 402, 489, 491, 495 band model, 461 carbon dioxide, 67, 136, 332, 385, 400, 476, 501, 502 banded structure, 106 carbon monoxide, 67, 135, 141, 142, 169, 300 barge, 105, 114 carbonaceous chondrite, 286, 293, 332, 352, 354, 398, 399 oscillation, 114 carbonate, 331 baroclinic, 109, 116 Carme, 265 barotropic, 109, 116 Cassini, 67, 79, 96, 151, 241, 246, 631, 663, 684, 685 beaming curve, 679, 682 catenae, 398, 438, 448 Beer's law, 90, 461, 462 Centaur, 263, 268, 271, 449 belt, 64, 83, 86, 89, 91, 100, 105, 110, 115, 118 central dome, 438 lightning, 120 central magnetosphere, 253 benzene, 67, 97, 135, 141, 143 central meridian longitude, 679 abundance, 141 centrifugal force, 282, 284 Bessel function, 609 Chaac Volcano, 463 beta turbulence, 106, 120 Chaac-Camaxtli region, 309 Bingham 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sedimentation, 80 c22, 282, 283, 285, 286, 288, 295 tenuous, 85 Callanish, 344, 437, 442 cloud chamber, 92 Index 709 cloud model, 65 current sheet, 489, 595, 599, 604, 606, 613, 646, 648, 649, 655, cloud sounding, 82 656, 658, 659, 664 cloud tracking, 109 cyclone, 114 clouds, 79 cyclonic feature, 113 cold plasma, 519, 621 cyclotron cold-core feature, 109 emission, 678 collisional broadening, 458 frequency, 679 comet, 21, 74, 141, 142, 172, 263, 513, 537 radiation, 175 capture, 273 close encounter, 449 Dardanus Sulcus, 377 impact, 159 dark floor deposit, 388 influx, 60, 73, 137 Dark Polar Region, 194, 661, 662 Jupiter family, 141, 270, 277 dayglow, 131 nucleus, 271 Dazhbog Patera, 317 oxygen flux, 273 debris apron, 409, 412 sampling, 31 Debye length, 539 short period, 271 decametric radiation, 175, 520, 521, 538, 539, 544, 554, 578, 597, cometary impactor, 404 617, 626, 640, 671 cometary nucleus, 421 decimetric emission, 176, 242 Composite Infrared Spectrometer, 174 deep convection, 72 condensate, 117 deep probe, 31 condensate cloud, 71 Deep Space Network, 281 condensation, 60, 86, 87, 117 deep troposphere, 7 4 conductance, 517 deep water cloud, 100 conductivity deep winds, 54 deformation radius, 117, 120 Birkeland, 515 Deimos, 244, 246 Hall, 515 density wave, 585 Pedersen, 515 deuterated hydrogen, 63 conservative scatterer, 87 deuterium, 22, 24, 35, 39, 69, 188 contraction, 37, 52 experiment, 39 convection, 36, 44, 54, 73, 107, 117, 121 diacetylene, 67, 134, 140 critical, 28 diapir, 336, 341, 391, 486 magnetospheric, 620, 625 differential rotation, 45, 50 moist, 80, 86, 118, 121 differentially rotating cylinder, 109, 121 convective adjustment, 120 diglycine, 354 convective overturn, 298 Diomedes, 27 4 cool plasma, 656 dipole tilt, 36 Copernicus, 187 dissipation factor, 307 core, 20, 22, 26, 29, 35, 44, 46, 47, 50-53, 60 dissociative recombination, 202 erosion, 53 Doh Crater, 414, 415 Coriolis force, 45, 111, 206, 213, 284 dome crater, 414 corotation enforcement 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236 Birkeland, 565, 570, 571, 613 flux, 225 Pedersen, 570 force, 227, 236 710 Index dust (cont.) electron density, 518 Ganymede, 234 diurnal variation, 204 impact rate, 222 electron precipitation, 202, 204, 205 interplanetary, 224 Elsasser number, 49 Io, 224, 235, 236 Elsasser variable, 545 mass distribution, 232 Emakong Patera, 314, 316, 318 periodic phenomenon, 220 empirical orthogonal function, 86 plasma interaction, 220 en echelon fault, 376 ring, 235 Enceladus, 237 satellite, 233, 236, 237 energetic neutral atoms, 633 Shoemaker-Levy 9, 236 energetic particle, 610, 617 sink, 236 Energetic Particle Instrument, 677 source, 225, 232, 235 Enkidu Crater, 430 speed, 226 Ennomos, 275 stream, 223-225, 230 epsomite, 497 trajectory, 230 equation of state, 39, 54 dynamo, 37, 49, 54, 289, 295, 301, 522, 593, 598, 645 equatorial band, 82 equatorial plasmasheet, 193, 649 Earth, 49, 87, 97, 105, 114, 122, 148, 151, 185, 196, 209, 283, equatorial region 295, 299, 313, 317, 354, 367, 404, 530, 554, 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