Apollo video photogrammetry estimation of plume impingement effects

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-52

  Immer, Christopher ^a   Lane, John ^a   Metzger, Philip ^a   Clements, Sandra ^b  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b ASRC Aerospace   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Experimental techniques; Image processing; Moon, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959550966     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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