Surface brightness variations seen by VIRTIS on Venus Express and implications for the evolution of the Lada Terra region, Venus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Helbert, Jörn ^a   Müller, Nils ^a   Kostama, Petri ^b   Marinangeli, Lucia ^c   Piccioni, Giuseppe ^d   Drossart, Pierre ^e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORBITS;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOWS; COMPLEX TASKS; COMPOSITIONAL INFORMATION; DATA SETS; HYPER-SPECTRAL DATA; INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING; ORBIT INSERTION; REGION BASED; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SURFACE BRIGHTNESSES; SURFACE COMPOSITIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VENUS EXPRESS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; INFRARED IMAGERY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY SATELLITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VENUS; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 49849099432     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033609     Document Type: Article

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