Evidence for Methane Segregation at the Surface of Pluto

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 421-444

  Doute S ^a   Schmitt, B ^a   Quirico, E ^a   Owen, T C ^b   Cruikshank, D P ^c   De Bergh, C ^d   Geballe, T R ^b   Roush, T L ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charon; Ices; Pluto; Radiative transfer; Spectrophotometry; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001304212     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6226     Document Type: Article

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