Salts on Europa's surface detected by Galileo's near infrared mapping spectrometer

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5367, 1998, Pages 1242-1245

  McCord, T B ^a   Hansen, G B ^a   Fanale, F P ^a   Carlson, R W ^b   Matson, D L ^b   Johnson, T V ^b   Smythe, W D ^b   Crowley, J K ^c   Martin, P D ^a   Ocampo, A ^b   Hibbitts, C A ^a   Granahan, J C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d STI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SPECTROMETRY; WATER ABSORPTION;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

CARBONATES; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; ICE; JUPITER; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0032557698     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5367.1242     Document Type: Article

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