The geology of Hotei Regio, Titan: Correlation of Cassini VIMS and RADAR

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 610-618

  Soderblom, Laurence A ^a   Brown, Robert H ^b   Soderblom, Jason M ^b   Barnes, Jason W ^c   Kirk, Randolph L ^a   Sotin, Christophe ^d   Jaumann, Ralf ^e,f   Mackinnon, David J ^a   Mackowski, Daniel W ^g   Baines, Kevin H ^d   Buratti, Bonnie J ^d   Clark, Roger N ^a   Nicholson, Philip D ^h  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Saturn; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350427671     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.033     Document Type: Article

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