Multispectral near-IR imaging of Venus nightside cloud features

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E13, 1998, Pages 31335-31348

  Chanover, Nancy J ^a,b   Glenar, David A ^a   Hillman, John J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; VENUS;

EID: 0032567295     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JE900009     Document Type: Article

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