Probable swirls detected as photometric anomalies in Oceanus Procellarum

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-30

  Shkuratov, Yu ^a   Kaydash, V ^a   Gerasimenko, S ^a   Opanasenko, N ^a   Velikodsky, Yu ^a   Korokhin, V ^a   Videen, G ^b   Pieters, C ^c  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moon, Surface; Photometry; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953537032     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.028     Document Type: Article

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