Titan's 3-micron spectral region from ISO high-resolution spectroscopy

Icarus

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 176-185

  Coustenis, Athena ^a   Negrão, Alberto ^a,d,f   Salama, Alberto ^c   Schulz, Bernhard ^b   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a   Rannou, Pascal ^d   Drossart, Pierre ^a   Encrenaz, Thérèse ^a   Schmitt, Bernard ^e   Boudon, Vincent ^g   Nikitin, Andrei ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^h V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; ISO; Satellites of Saturn; Surfaces, satellite; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844509328     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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