Photochemistry of methane-water ices

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 338-342

  Hodyss, Robert ^a   Johnson, Paul V ^a   Stern, Julie V ^a   Goguen, Jay D ^a   Kanik, Isik ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; IR spectroscopy; Photochemistry; Satellites; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449105914     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.024     Document Type: Article

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