Enceladus: A hypothesis for bringing both heat and chemicals to the surface

Icarus

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Matson, Dennis L ^a   Castillo Rogez, Julie C ^a   Davies, Ashley Gerard ^a   Johnson, Torrence V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Geological processes; Geophysics; Interiors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864808044     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.05.031     Document Type: Article

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