Titan's surface reviewed: The nature of bright and dark terrain

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 981-992

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Lunine, Jonathan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0000206299     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(97)00087-1     Document Type: Article

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