Palimpsest

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4494.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4494. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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A bright circular feature on an icy surface with very little vertical relief. The term is used to describe features on the outer three Galilean satellites of Jupiter; it originally meant a piece of parchment prepared for reuse by erasing what had been written on it. Palimpsests are interpreted as impact features whose original morphology has been smoothed out. The impacts are supposed to have occ...

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