Europa's ridged plains and smooth low albedo plains: Distinctive compositions and compositional gradients at the leading side-trailing side boundary

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 358-384

  Shirley, James H ^a   Dalton, James B ^a   Prockter, Louise M ^b   Kamp, Lucas W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Jupiter, satellites; Satellites, composition; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957273385     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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