Titan's surface and rotation: New results from Voyager 1 images

Icarus

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 113-124

  Richardson, James ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   McEwen, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Image processing; Satellites; Surface; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142661057     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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