Lunar reflectivity from Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer imaging and spectroscopy of the full Moon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3253-3256

  Flynn, Brian C ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a   Randall Gladstone, G ^b   Edelstein, Jerry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR REFLECTIVITY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

IMAGING METHOD; MOON; REFLECTIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032173182     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02483     Document Type: Article

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