Seeing double at Neptune's south pole

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 938-944

  Luszcz Cook, S H ^a   de Pater, I ^a   Adamkovics M ^a   Hammel, H B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Infrared observations; Neptune, Atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954620806     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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