Evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 363-365

  Carr, Michael H ^a   Belton, Michael J S ^b   Chapman, Clark R ^c   Davies, Merton E ^d   Geissler, Paul ^e   Greenberg, Richard ^e   McEwen, Alfred S ^e   Tufts, Bruce R ^e   Greeley, Ronald ^f   Sullivan, Robert ^g   Head, James W ^h   Pappalardo, Robert T ^h   Klaasen, Kenneth P ⁱ   Johnson, Torrence V ⁱ   Kaufman, James ⁱ   Senske, David ⁱ   Moore, Jeffrey ^j   Neukum, Gerhard ^k   Schubert, Gerald ^l   Burns, Joseph A ^g   Thomas, Peter ^g   Veverka, Joseph ^g   more..

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

ICY CRUST; PLANETARY MORPHOLOGY; PLNATRFACE OCEAN; ROCKY INTERIOR; SUBSURFACE OCEAN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; MODEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; JUPITER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EUROPA;

EID: 18144435537     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34857     Document Type: Article

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