A New Understanding of the Internal Evolution of Saturnian Icy Satellites from Cassini Observations
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FROM CASSINI OBSERVATIONS J. C. Castillo, D. L. Matson, C. Sotin, T. V. Johnson, J. I. Lunine, P. C. Thomas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, (email: [email protected]). Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geodynamique, Faculte des Sciences, Nantes, France. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ. ITA-ISFI, Roma, Italy. Astrophysics Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006