Titan imagery with Keck adaptive optics during and after probe entry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  de Pater, Imke ^a   Ádámkovics, Máte ^a   Bouchez, Antonin H ^b   Brown, Michael E ^c   Gibbard, Seran G ^d   Marchis, Franck ^a   Roe, Henry G ^c   Schaller, Emily L ^c   Young, Eliot ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROST; HAZE; IMAGING METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PROBE; TITAN;

EID: 33751077295     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002620     Document Type: Article

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