Electrical properties of Titan's surface from Cassini RADAR scatterometer measurements

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-385

  Wye, Lauren C ^a   Zebker, Howard A ^a   Ostro, Steven J ^b   West, Richard D ^b   Gim, Yonggyu ^b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^c   the Cassini RADAR Team, ^d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Radar observations; Satellites; satellites; Saturn; surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247849389     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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