The heartbeat of the volcano: The discovery of episodic activity at Prometheus on Io

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 460-477

  Davies, Ashley Gerard ^a   Wilson, Lionel ^b   Matson, Dennis ^a   Leone, Giovanni ^b   Keszthelyi, Laszlo ^c   Jaeger, Windy ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data reduction techniques; Earth; Geological processes; Io; Jupiter; satellites; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748713044     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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