Neutral particle release from Europa's surface

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 385-395

  Plainaki, C ^a   Milillo, A ^a   Mura, A ^a   Orsini, S ^a   Cassidy, T ^b  

^a INAF   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Satellites, surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957281846     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.041     Document Type: Article

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