Anomalous radar backscatter from Titan's surface?

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 321-328

  Janssen, M A ^a   Le Gall, A ^a   Wye, L C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar observations; Radio observations; Satellites, Surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952005270     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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