Estimates of Europa's ice shell thickness from elastically-supported topography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Nimmo, F ^a   Giese, B ^b   Pappalardo, R T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); THERMAL EFFECTS;

CRATERS; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS; FUTURE SPACECRAFT; IMPACT CRATERS; LOWER BOUNDS; SHELL THICKNESS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL HISTORY; TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; ICE;

ELASTIC WAVE; EUROPA; ICE THICKNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CILIX;

EID: 0042701613     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016660     Document Type: Article

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