Hypsometry of Titan

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 699-706

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Turtle, Elizabeth P ^a   Stiles, Bryan ^b   Le Gall, Alice ^b   Hayes, Alexander ^c   Aharonson, Oded ^c   Wood, Charles A ^d   Stofan, Ellen ^e   Kirk, Randy ^f  

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

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Wheeling Jesuit University   (United States)

^e Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Geophysics; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650939143     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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