Spatially resolved images of Titan by means of adaptive optics

Icarus

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 482-497

  Combes, M ^a   Vapillon, L ^a   Gendron, E ^a   Coustenis, A ^a   Lai, O ^a   Wittemberg, R ^a   Sirdey, R ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 0031256569     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5772     Document Type: Article

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