The opposition and tilt effects of Saturn's rings from HST observations

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 785-816

  Salo, Heikki ^a   French, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hubble Space Telescope observations; Photometry; Planetary rings; Radiative transfer; Saturn, Rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049527763     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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