Flooding of Ganymede's bright terrains by low-viscosity water-ice lavas

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6824, 2001, Pages 57-60

  Schenk, Paul M ^a   McKinnon, William B ^b   Gwynn, David ^c   Moore, Jeffrey M ^d  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

ARTICLE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; JUPITER;

EID: 0035282321     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35065027     Document Type: Article

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