Slope characteristics of Europa: Constraints for landers and radar Sounding

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Schenk, Paul M ^a  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENT SCALES;

ENCELADUS; GALILEO; GALILEO IMAGES; GANYMEDE; LANDING SITE; LENGTH SCALE; MATRIX; PHOTOCLINOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RADAR SOUNDINGS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

CRATER; EUROPA; MARS; RADAR; SPACECRAFT; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 70350009802     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039062     Document Type: Article

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