Subsurface heat transfer on Enceladus: Conditions under which melting occurs

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 594-607

  Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a   Pankine, Alexey A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Geological processes; Ices; Interiors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649236881     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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