Thermal and topographic tests of Europa chaos formation models from Galileo E15 observations

Icarus

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 327-340

  Nimmo, F ^a,c   Giese, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Geophysics; Ices; Satellites of Jupiter; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444508931     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.10.034     Document Type: Article

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