Maps of Titan's surface from 1 to 2.5 μm

Icarus

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-105

  Coustenis, Athena ^a   Hirtzig, Mathieu ^a   Gendron, Eric ^a   Drossart, Pierre ^a   Lai, Olivier ^a,b   Combes, Michel ^a   Negrão, Alberto ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Infrared observations; Satellites; Satellites of Saturn; Surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744497741     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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