Central pit craters on Ganymede

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1274-1283

  Alzate, Nathalia ^a   Barlow, Nadine G ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ganymede; Ices; Mars, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151473041     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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