Whole-disk spectrophotometric properties of Mercury: Synthesis of MESSENGER and ground-based observations

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-124

  Domingue, Deborah L ^a   Vilas, Faith ^b   Holsclaw, Gregory M ^c   Warell, Johan ^d   Izenberg, Noam R ^a   Murchie, Scott L ^a   Denevi, Brett W ^e   Blewett, David T ^a   McClintock, William E ^c   Anderson, Brian J ^a   Sarantos, Menelaos ^f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury; Photometry; Spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955768519     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.022     Document Type: Article

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