Tidal heating and the long-term stability of a subsurface ocean on Enceladus

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 675-689

  Roberts, James H ^a   Nimmo, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Geophysics; satellites; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849106680     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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