Searching for the Deep Impact crater on Comet 9P/Tempel 1 using image processing techniques

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-68

  Busko, I ^a   Lindler, D ^b   A'Hearn, M F ^c   White, R L ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Image processing; nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846885460     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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