Titan's 5-micron lightcurve

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 209-214

  Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a   Schmitt, B ^b   Coustenis, A ^a   Cuby, J G ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Surfaces, planets; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842427814     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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