Composition, Physical State, and Distribution of Ices at the Surface of Triton

Icarus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-178

  Quirico, Eric ^a   Douté, Sylvain ^a   Schmitt, Bernard ^a   De Bergh, Catherine ^b   Cruikshank, Dale P ^c   Owen, Tobias C ^d   Geballe, Thomas R ^d   Roush, Ted L ^c  

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

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Infrared spectroscopy; Satellites; Surfaces; Triton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003231294     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6111     Document Type: Article

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