The origin of Ganymede's polar caps

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 193-202

  Khurana, Krishan K ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^b   Murphy, Nate ^c   Denk, Tilmann ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Europa; Ganymede; Jupiter; magnetosphere; Satellites; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248862005     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.022     Document Type: Article

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