Detecting the glint of starlight on the oceans of distant planets

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 927-937

  Williams, Darren M ^a   Gaidos, Eric ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Extrasolar planets; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249122574     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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