Water Ice on Triton

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 309-316

  Cruikshank, Dale P ^a   Schmitt, Bernard ^b   Roush, Ted L ^a   Owen, Tobias C ^c   Quirico, Eric ^d   Geballe, Thomas R ^e   De Bergh, Catherine ^f   Bartholomew, Mary Jane ^a,g   Dalle Ore, Cristina M ^a,h   Douté, Sylvain ⁱ   Meier, Roland ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^g Sterling Software   (United States)

^h SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Infrared observations; Satellite; Satellites of Neptune; Spectroscopy; Surfaces; Triton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000905143     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6451     Document Type: Article

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