Geological evidence for solid-state convection in Europa's ice shell

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 365-368

  Pappalardo, R T ^a   Head, J W ^a   Greeley, R ^b   Sullivan, R J ^b   Pilcher, C ^c   Schubert, G ^d   Moore, W B ^d   Carr, M H ^e   Moore, J M ^f   Belton, M J S ^g   Goldsby, D L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

CONVECTION; ICE SHELL; PLANETARY MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; ICE; JUPITER;

EUROPA;

EID: 0032556896     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34862     Document Type: Article

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