Dark Terrain on Ganymede: Geological Mapping and Interpretation of Galileo Regio at High Resolution

Icarus

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 317-344

  Prockter, Louise M ^a   Head, James W ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^a   Senske, David A ^b   Neukum, Gerhard ^c   Wagner, Roland ^c   Wolf, Ursula ^c   Oberst, Jürgen Oberst ^c   Giese, Bernd ^c   Moore, Jeffrey M ^d   Chapman, Clark R ^e   Helfenstein, Paul ^f   Greeley, Ronald ^g   Breneman, H Herbert ^b   Belton, Michael J S ^h  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000265156     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.5981     Document Type: Article

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