Radarclinometry of the sand seas of Africa's Namibia and Saturn's moon Titan

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 385-394

  Neish, Catherine D ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Kirk, Randolph L ^b   Wye, Lauren C ^c  

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

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Radar observations; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953537205     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.023     Document Type: Article

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