Titan's 5 μm spectral window: Carbon monoxide and the Albedo of the surface

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 625-631

  Noll, Keith S ^a   Geballe, Thomas R ^b   Knacke, Roger F ^c   Pendleton, Yvonne J ^d  

^a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0030527361     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0236     Document Type: Article

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