Experimental test of a radiative transfer model of the optical effects of space weathering

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 348-353

  Lucey, Paul G ^a   Noble, Sarah K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury; Moon; Spectroscopy; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549093152     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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