Spectrophotometry of Saturn's small satellites and rings from Hubble Space Telescope images

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E10, 1999, Pages 24095-24110

  Poulet, François ^a,c   Karoschka, Erich ^b   Sicardy, Bruno ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE; SATURN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0033604186     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JE000621     Document Type: Article

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