Titan: Atmospheric and surface features as observed with Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System Near-Infrared Imager and Spectrograph at the time of the Huygens mission

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

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

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAR INFRARED; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TITAN;

EID: 34547940342     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002650     Document Type: Article

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