Mass Movement and Landform Degradation on the Icy Galilean Satellites: Results of the Galileo Nominal Mission

Icarus

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 294-312

  Moore, Jeffrey M ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^a   Morrison, David ^a   Spencer, John R ^b   Chapman, Clark R ^c   Bierhaus, Beau ^c   Sullivan, Robert J ^d   Chuang, Frank C ^d   Klemaszewski, James E ^d   Greeley, Ronald ^d   Bender, Kelly C ^d   Geissler, Paul E ^e   Helfenstein, Paul ^f   Pilcher, Carl B ^g  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^g NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Callisto; Europa; Ganymede; Satellite surfaces; Satellites of Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000407559     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6132     Document Type: Article

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