Magnetic Field
Abstract
Mariner II magnetometer data gave no indication of a Venusian magnetic field. This implies, by comparison with spacecraft measurements near Earth and with theoretical models, that the magnetic dipole moment of Venus is at most 1/10 to 1/20 that of the earth.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.139.3558.909
- Bibcode:
- 1963Sci...139..909S