Enceladus’ Interior and Geysers – Possibility for Hydrothermal Geochemistry
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AND N2 PRODUCTION. D. L. Matson, J. C. Castillo, C. Sotin, T. V. Johnson, J. I. Lunine, A. G. Davies, T. B. McCord, P. C. Thomas, E. P. Turtle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. (email: [email protected]); Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geodynamique, Faculte des Sciences, Nantes, France, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, ITA-ISFI, Roma, Italy, Space Sciences Institute, Bear Fight Center, Box 667, Winthrop, WA. Astrophysics Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
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