Radar topography of domes on planetary surfaces

Icarus

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 552-564

  Neish, Catherine D ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^b   Kirk, Randolph L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Radar observations; surface; Titan; Venus; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149105094     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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