The haze and methane distributions on Neptune from HST-STIS spectroscopy

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 780-797

  Karkoschka, Erich ^a   Tomasko, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Composition; Atmospheres, Structure; Neptune; Neptune, Atmosphere; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650925465     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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