Secondary and sesquinary craters on Europa

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 660-674

  Zahnle, Kevin ^a   Alvarellos, Jose L ^b   Dobrovolskis, Anthony ^c   Hamill, Patrick ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Safety and Mission Assurance Manager Space Systems Loral   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Europa; Impact processes; Io; Jupiter; satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849116179     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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