Enceladus' plume: Compositional evidence for a hot interior

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 569-573

  Matson, Dennis L ^a   Castillo, Julie C ^a   Lunine, Jonathan ^a,b   Johnson, Torrence V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

composition; Enceladus; Prebiotic chemistry; Prebiotic environments; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847378007     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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