A study of Saturn's ring phase curves from HST observations

Icarus

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 224-248

  Poulet, F ^a   Cuzzi, J N ^a   French, R G ^b   Dones, L ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent backscattering; Opposition effect shadow hiding; Planetary rings; Saturn phase curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036638985     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6852     Document Type: Article

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