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Scientific paper
Mar 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..941m&link_type=abstract
Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 941.
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Europa, Satellite Surfaces, Craters, Pits, Galileo Spacecraft, Hypervelocity Impact, Satellite Imagery
Scientific paper
Imaging data from Galileo's first four orbits of Jupiter have begun to provide clues to the prevalence and nature of circular-depression features on the surface of Europa. Images have been acquired of highly spatially-selective regions, with resolutions ranging from the 1.6 km/pixel (slightly better than Voyager) in the first orbit to as high as 26 m/pixel in the fourth orbit. These data indicate a distinct deficiency of impact craters at all sizes, relative to the outer Galilean satellites, and point toward at least two populations of circular-depression features. One class is composed of those features that are clearly impact craters, reflecting what appears to be a steeply sloping production population of impactors. The other is a class of shallow, weak-rimmed depressions (pits), having a monomodal size distribution, that are likely to be endogenic in origin.
Bender K.
Bierhaus Beau
Brooks Shimon
Carr Michael
Chapman Clark R.
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