Subsurface Oceans on Europa and Callisto: Constraints from Galileo Magnetometer Observations

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 329-347

  Zimmer, Christophe ^a   Khurana, Krishan K ^a   Kivelson, Margaret G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Callisto; Europa; Interiors; Jupiter; Magnetic fields; Magnetosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001243846     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6456     Document Type: Article

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