Degree-one convection and the origin of Enceladus' dichotomy

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 203-210

  Grott, M ^a   Sohl, F ^a   Hussmann, H ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Geophysics; Interiors; satellites; Saturn; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248856377     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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