Recent hotspot volcanism on venus from VIRTIS emissivity data

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5978, 2010, Pages 605-608

  Smrekar, Suzanne E ^a   Stofan, Ellen R ^b   Mueller, Nils ^c,f   Treiman, Allan ^d   Elkins Tanton, Linda ^e   Helbert, Joern ^f   Piccioni, Giuseppe ^g   Drossart, Pierre ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAVITY; HOT SPOT; LAVA FLOW; MANTLE PLUME; SPECTROMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY; VENUS; VOLCANISM; WEATHERING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAVITY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETER; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO; WEATHERING;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951777467     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1186785     Document Type: Article

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