Saturn's rings: Optical reflectance polarimetry

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-261

  Dollfus, Audouin ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 0030295264     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0201     Document Type: Article

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