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| Review of modeling of losses and sources of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt II: Local acceleration and loss | Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics | 2008 | 315 |
| S/WAVES: The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation on the STEREO Mission | Space Science Reviews | 2008 | 269 |
| STEREO IMPACT Investigation Goals, Measurements, and Data Products Overview | Space Science Reviews | 2008 | 226 |
| Discovery of very large amplitude whistler-mode waves in Earth's radiation belts | Geophysical Research Letters | 2008 | 221 |
| The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap | Astrobiology | 2008 | 210 |
| Review of modeling of losses and sources of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt I: Radial transport | Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics | 2008 | 177 |
| Solar wind driving of magnetospheric ULF waves: Pulsations driven by velocity shear at the magnetopause | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 158 |
| Volcanism on Mercury: evidence from the first MESSENGER flyby | Science | 2008 | 152 |
| Mercury's magnetosphere after MESSENGER's first flyby | Science | 2008 | 147 |
| Reflectance and color variations on Mercury: regolith processes and compositional heterogeneity | Science | 2008 | 143 |
| First Results from the THEMIS Mission | Space Science Reviews | 2008 | 143 |
| Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of meteoric dust in the mesosphere and upper stratosphere | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 136 |
| Flare Irradiance Spectral Model (FISM): Flare component algorithms and results | Space Weather | 2008 | 125 |
| THEMIS observations of long-lived regions of large-amplitude whistler waves in the inner magnetosphere | Geophysical Research Letters | 2008 | 120 |
| Geology of the Caloris basin, Mercury: a view from MESSENGER | Science | 2008 | 114 |
| The THEMIS Digital Fields Board | Space Science Reviews | 2008 | 114 |
| First Results of the THEMIS Search Coil Magnetometers | Space Science Reviews | 2008 | 108 |
| Water vapour jets inside the plume of gas leaving Enceladus | Nature | 2008 | 102 |
| High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder: Experiment overview, recovery, and validation of initial temperature data | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 98 |
| Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 92 |
| Detection of a molecular biomarker for zygomycetes by quantitative PCR assays of plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage, and lung tissue in a rabbit model of experimental pulmonary zygomycosis | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2008 | 91 |
| Periglacial landforms at the Phoenix landing site and the northern plains of Mars | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 85 |
| Spectroscopic observations of Mercury's surface reflectance during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby | Science | 2008 | 85 |
| The turbulent Alfvénic aurora | Physical Review Letters | 2008 | 83 |
