Shoreline features of Titan's Ontario Lacus from Cassini/VIMS observations

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 217-225

  Barnes, Jason W ^a,b   Brown, Robert H ^c   Soderblom, Jason M ^c   Soderblom, Laurence A ^d   Jaumann, Ralf ^e   Jackson, Brian ^c   Le Mouélic, Stéphane ^f   Sotin, Christophe ^g   Buratti, Bonnie J ^g   Pitman, Karly M ^g   Baines, Kevin H ^g   Clark, Roger N ^d   Nicholson, Phillip D ^h   Turtle, Elizabeth P ⁱ   Perry, Jason ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749130358     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.028     Document Type: Article

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