The Surface of Titan from NICMOS Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 462-473

  Meier, Roland ^a   Smith, Bradford A ^a   Owen, Tobias C ^a   Terrile, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Infrared observations; Surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000179297     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6360     Document Type: Article

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