Salts on Europa's surface detected by Galileo near infrared mapping spectometer.

Authors :: McCord, T.B.
Hansen, G.B.
Fanale, F.P.
Carlson, R.W.
Matson, D.L.
Johnson, T.V.
Smythe, W.D.
Crowley, J.K.
Martin, P.D.
Ocampo, A.
Hibbitts, C.A.
Granahan, J.C.
Source :: Science. 5/22/1998, Vol. 280 Issue 5367, p1242-1245. 4p. 2 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs, 2 Graphs.
Publication Year :: 1998
Abstract: Reports on salts on Europa's surface detected by Galileo near the infrared mapping spectrometer. Where the distorted bands can be observed on the satellite of Jupiter; Suggestion that the laboratory spectra of hydrated salt minerals such as magnesium sulfates and sodium carbonates and mixtures of the minerals provide a close match to the Europa spectra.

Subjects :: *EUROPA (Satellite)
*SATELLITES of Jupiter
*ASTRONOMICAL observations

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