Titan's surface from reconciled Cassini microwave reflectivity and emissivity observations

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 704-710

  Zebker, Howard A ^a   Wye, Lauren C ^a   Janssen, Michael A ^b   Cassini Radar Team, ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar observations; Satellites; surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849116374     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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