Empirical constraints on the salinity of the europan ocean and implications for a thin ice shell

Icarus

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 424-438

  Hand, Kevin P ^a,b,c   Chyba, Christopher F ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; composition; Europa; Jupiter; magnetosphere; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447278812     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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