Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus.

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Published in Nature on June 25, 2009

Authors

F Postberg1, S Kempf, J Schmidt, N Brilliantov, A Beinsen, B Abel, U Buck, R Srama

Author Affiliations

1: Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. frank.postberg@mpi-hd.mpg.de

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