Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7542, 2015, Pages 207-210

  Hsu, Hsiang Wen ^a   Postberg, Frank ^b,c   Sekine, Yasuhito ^d   Shibuya, Takazo ^e   Kempf, Sascha ^a   Horányi, Mihály ^a   Juhász, Antal ^a,f   Altobelli, Nicolas ^g   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^e   Masaki, Yuka ^e   Kuwatani, Tatsu ^h   Tachibana, Shogo ⁱ   Sirono, Sin Iti ^j   Moragas Klostermeyer, Georg ^c   Srama, Ralf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^h TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; MINERAL; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE WATER;

DROPLET; FROZEN GROUND; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; PLUME; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GRAVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUID; MOON; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84924662556     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14262     Document Type: Article

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