Evidence for Europa-like tectonic resurfacing styles on Ganymede

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Head, James ^a   Pappalardo, Robert ^b   Collins, Geoffrey ^c   Belton, Michael J S ^d   Giese, Bernd ^e   Wagner, Roland ^e   Breneman, Herbert ^f   Spaun, Nicole ^g   Nixon, Brian ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^h   Moore, Jeffrey ^g  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CRYOVOLCANISM; DOMINANT PROCESS; GALILEO; GANYMEDE; HIGH RESOLUTION; TECTONIC RESURFACING; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037728914     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015961     Document Type: Article

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