Plasma, plumes and rings: Saturn system dynamics as recorded in global color patterns on its midsize icy satellites

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 740-757

  Schenk, Paul ^a   Hamilton, Douglas P ^b   Johnson, Robert E ^c   McKinnon, William B ^d   Paranicas, Chris ^e   Schmidt, Jürgen ^f   Showalter, Mark R ^g  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Magnetospheres; Satellites, Composition; Satellites, Surfaces; Saturn, Rings; Saturn, Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650962150     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.016     Document Type: Article

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