The impact of a weak south pole on thermal convection in Enceladus' ice shell

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 320-330

  Han, Lijie ^a   Tobie, Gabriel ^b   Showman, Adam P ^c  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Ices; Saturn, Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855870235     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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