Illumination conditions of the lunar polar regions using LOLA topography

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1066-1081

  Mazarico, E ^a,b   Neumann, G A ^a   Smith, D E ^a,b   Zuber, M T ^b   Torrence, M H ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151477532     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.030     Document Type: Article

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