Geology and topography of Ra Patera, Io, in the Voyager era: Prelude to eruption

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2467-2470

  Schenk, Paul M ^a   McEwen, Alfred ^b   Davies, A G ^c   Davenport, Trevor ^d   Jones, Kevin ^e   Fessler, Brian ^a  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPACE PROBES; VOLCANOES;

LAVA FLOWS; RA PATERA VOLCANIC CENTER;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

IO; JOVIAN SATELLITE; TOPOGRAPHY; VOYAGER;

EID: 0031252185     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02688     Document Type: Article

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