Global-scale surface spectral variations on Titan seen from Cassini/VIMS

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 242-258

  Barnes, Jason W ^a   Brown, Robert H ^a   Soderblom, Laurence ^b   Buratti, Bonnie J ^c   Sotin, Christophe ^d   Rodriguez, Sebastien ^d   Le Mouèlic, Stephane ^d   Baines, Kevin H ^c   Clark, Roger ^e   Nicholson, Phil ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845221437     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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