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Icarus

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 598-599

  Lee, Sunwoong ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^b   Makris, Nicholas C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Fracture; Ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447257651     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.016     Document Type: Note

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