Rate-dependent strength of porous ice-silica mixtures and its implications for the shape of small to middle-sized icy satellites

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 956-967

  Yasui, Minami ^a   Arakawa, Masahiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ices, Mechanical properties; Satellites, Shapes; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049528017     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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