Titan's north-south asymmetry from HST and Voyager imaging: Comparison with models and ground-based photometry

Icarus

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 173-189

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Smith, Peter H ^a   Lemmon, Mark T ^a   Karkoschka, Erich ^a   Lockwood, G W ^b   Caldwell, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031139010     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5687     Document Type: Article

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