Decoding the Domino: The Dark Side of Iapetus

Icarus

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 160-172

  Owen, Tobias C ^a   Cruikshank, Dale P ^b   Dalle Ore, C M ^b   Geballe, T R ^c   Roush, T L ^b   De Bergh, C ^d   Meier, Roland ^a   Pendleton, Yvonne J ^b   Khare, Bishun N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Gemini Telescope   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Iapetus; Organic chemistry; Satellites of Saturn; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001594932     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6521     Document Type: Article

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