Adaptive Optics Observations of Saturn's Ring Plane Crossing in August 1995

Icarus

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 299-307

  Roddier, F ^a   Roddier, C ^a   Brahic, A ^b   Dumas, C ^c   Graves, J E ^a   Northcott, M J ^a   Owen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Instrumention; Planetary rings; Satellites; Satellites of Saturn; Saturn; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000605943     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6251     Document Type: Article

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