New Cassini RADAR results for Saturn's icy satellites

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 498-506

  Ostro, S J ^a   West, R D ^a   Wye, L C ^b   Zebker, H A ^b   Janssen, M A ^a   Stiles, B ^a   Kelleher, K ^a   Anderson, Y Z ^a   Boehmer, R A ^a   Callahan, P ^a   Gim, Y ^a   Hamilton, G A ^a   Johnson, W T K ^a   Veeramachaneni, C ^a   Lorenz, R D ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar observations; Satellites, General; Saturn, Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649236307     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.041     Document Type: Article

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