NASA's terrestrial planet finder mission: The search for habitable planets

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 539, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Coulter, Daniel R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; GALAXIES; INFRARED RADIATION; ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; HABITABLE PLANETS; PLANET CHARACTERIZATION; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDERS (TPF);

PLANETS;

EID: 3142715480     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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