Total particulate mass in Enceladus plumes and mass of Saturn's E ring inferred from Cassini ISS images

Icarus

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 492-506

  Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a   Ewald, Shawn P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Ices; Saturn, Rings; Saturn, Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054997788     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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