Voyager 2 ultraviolet spectrometer solar occultations at Neptune : Photochemical modeling of the 125-165 nm lightcurves

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-20

  Bishop, James ^a   Romani, Paul N ^b   Atreya, Sushil K ^c  

^a Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0002458717     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(97)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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