Titan Radar Mapper observations from Cassini's T3 fly-by

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7094, 2006, Pages 709-713

  Elachi, C ^a   Wall, S ^a   Janssen, M ^a   Stofan, E ^b   Lopes, R ^a   Kirk, R ^c   Lorenz, R ^d   Lunine, J ^d,e   Paganelli, F ^a   Soderblom, L ^c   Wood, C ^f   Wye, L ^g   Zebker, H ^g   Anderson, Y ^a   Ostro, S ^a   Allison, M ^h   Boehmer, R ^a   Callahan, P ^a   Encrenaz, P ⁱ   Flamini, E ^j   Francescetti, G ^k   Gim, Y ^a   Hamilton, G ^a   Hensley, S ^a   Johnson, W ^a   Kelleher, K ^a   Muhleman, D ^l   Picardi, G ^m   Posa, F ⁿ   Roth, L ^a   Seu, R ^m   Shaffer, S ^a   Stiles, B ^a   Vetrella, S ^k   West, R ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e INAF   (Italy)

^f PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^j ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

^k Facolta di Ingegneria   (Italy)

^l CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

ⁿ POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; RADIOMETRY;

FLUVIAL CHANNELS; IMPACT CRATERS; LONGITUDINAL DUNES; SCATTEROMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

CRATER; FLIGHT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; LANDFORM; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TITAN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LAND BIOME; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; SPACE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744987418     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04786     Document Type: Article

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