A recently formed ocean inside Saturn's moon Mimas.
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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
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Date de publication:
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
Historique:
received:
28
02
2023
accepted:
14
12
2023
medline:
8
2
2024
pubmed:
8
2
2024
entrez:
7
2
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Moons potentially harbouring a global ocean are tending to become relatively common objects in the Solar System
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pubmed: 38326592
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06975-9
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06975-9
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eng
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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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