Iapetus surface variability revealed from statistical clustering of a VIMS mosaic: The distribution of CO2

Icarus

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-82

  Pinilla Alonso, Noemi ^a   Roush, Ted L ^a   Marzo, Giuseppe A ^b   Cruikshank, Dale P ^a   Dalle Ore, Cristina M ^a,c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

^c SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Iapetus; Ices; Satellites, Composition; Satellites, Surfaces; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052034900     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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