Io: Galileo evidence for major variations in regolith properties

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2475-2478

  Simonelli, Damon P ^a   Veverka, Joseph ^a   McEwen, Alfred S ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS;

IO REGOLITH PROPERTIES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

GALILEO; IO; JOVIAN SATELLITE; REGOLITH;

EID: 0031252062     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02506     Document Type: Article

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