Red, Gray, and Blue: Near Infrared Spectrophotometry of Faint Moons of Uranus and Neptune

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 301-306

  Trilling, David E ^a   Brown, Robert H ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Infrared observations; Satellites of Neptune; Satellites of Uranus; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005680708     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6505     Document Type: Article

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