The 2-μm spectroscopy of Huygens probe landing site on Titan with very large telescope/Nasmyth adaptive optics system near-infrared imager and spectrograph

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Negrão, Alberto ^a,b,c   Hirtzig, Mathieu ^a,d   Coustenis, A ^a   Gendron, E ^a   Drossart, P ^a   Rannou, P ^c   Combes, M ^a   Boudon, V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY; TITAN;

EID: 34547895059     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002651     Document Type: Article

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