Magnetic remote sensing of Europa's ocean tides

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 906-908

  Tyler, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Magnetic fields; Planetary dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650952838     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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