Impact craters on Titan

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 334-344

  Wood, Charles A ^a,b   Lorenz, Ralph ^c   Kirk, Randy ^d   Lopes, Rosaly ^e   Mitchell, Karl ^e   Stofan, Ellen ^f  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Geological processes; Saturn, Satellites; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949097172     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.021     Document Type: Article

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