Saturn's cloud structure and temporal evolution from ten years of Hubble Space Telescope images (1994-2003)

Icarus

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 155-174

  Perez Hoyos S ^a   Sanchez Lavega A ^a   French, R G ^b   Rojas, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, evolution; Atmospheres, sttructure; Radiative transfer; Saturn, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844426009     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.014     Document Type: Article

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