Hubble Space Telescope imaging polarimetry of Mars during the 2003 opposition

Icarus

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Shkuratov, Yu ^a,b   Kreslavsky, M ^a,c   Kaydash, V ^a   Videen, G ^d   Bell III, J ^e   Wolff, M ^d   Hubbard, M ^e   Noll, K ^d   Lubenow, A ^d  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars atmosphere; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844400623     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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