Morphology and origin of palimpsests on Ganymede based on Galileo observations

Icarus

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 197-212

  Jones, Kevin B ^a,c   Head III, James W ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^a,d   Moore, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Europa; Ganymede; Impact processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043205975     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00128-3     Document Type: Article

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