A 0.4-2.5 μm spectroscopic investigation of Triton's two faces

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 367-373

  Marchi, S ^a   Barbieri, C ^a   Lazzarin, M ^a   Owen, T C ^b   Corsini, E M ^a  

^a Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 2 ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Satellites; Spectroscopy; Surfaces; Triton

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842832785     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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