The temperature of Europa's subsurface water ocean

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 498-502

  Melosh, H J ^a   Ekholm, A G ^a   Showman, A P ^a   Lorenz, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Interiors; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842832771     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.11.026     Document Type: Article

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