Impact Features on Europa: Results of the Galileo Europa Mission (GEM)

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 93-111

  Moore, Jeffrey M ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^b   Belton, Michael J S ^c   Bierhaus, Beau ^d   Breneman, H Herbert ^e   Brooks, Shawn M ^d   Chapman, Clark R ^d   Chuang, Frank C ^f   Collins, Geoffrey C ^g   Giese, Bernd ^h   Greeley, Ronald ^f   Head III, James W ^g   Kadel, Steve ^f   Klaasen, Kenneth P ^e   Klemaszewski, James E ^f   Magee, Kari P ^e   Moreau, John ^f   Morrison, David ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^h   Pappalardo, Robert T ^g   Phillips, Cynthia B ⁱ   Schenk, Paul M ^j   Senske, David A ^e   Sullivan, Robert J ^k   Turtle, Elizabeth P ⁱ   Williams, Kevinm K ^f   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

more..

Author keywords

Cratering; Europa; Satellites of Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002449843     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6558     Document Type: Article

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