A passive probe for subsurface oceans and liquid water in Jupiter's icy moons

Icarus

Volumn 248, Issue , 2015, Pages 463-477

  Romero Wolf, Andrew ^a   Vance, Steve ^a   Maiwald, Frank ^a   Heggy, Essam ^a   Ries, Paul ^a   Liewer, Kurt ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Ganymede; Ices; Jupiter; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916629432     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.043     Document Type: Article

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