A fracture history on Enceladus provides evidence for a global ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Patthoff, D Alex ^a   Kattenhorn, Simon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; SATELLITES; STRESSES;

CASSINI SPACECRAFT; ENCELADUS; FLOATING ICE; FRACTURE PATTERN; FRACTURED SURFACES; GLOBAL OCEAN; NONSYNCHRONOUS ROTATION; OUTER PLANETS; SATURN'S MOONS; SOUTH POLE; STRESS FIELD; SUBSURFACE LIQUID;

LIQUIDS;

GLOBAL OCEAN; MOON; PLANETARY LANDFORM; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TERRAIN;

EID: 80053224626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048387     Document Type: Article

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