The Distribution of Bright and Dark Material on Ganymede in Relationship to Surface Elevation and Slopes

Icarus

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-293

  Oberst, Jürgen ^a   Schreiner, Björn ^a   Giese, Bernd ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^a   Head, James W ^b   Pappalardo, Robert T ^b   Helfenstein, Paul ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ganymede; Satellites of Jupiter; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042434317     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6143     Document Type: Article

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