Lunar surface roughness derived from LRO Diviner Radiometer observations

Icarus

Volumn 248, Issue , 2015, Pages 357-372

  Bandfield, Joshua L ^a   Hayne, Paul O ^b   Williams, Jean Pierre ^c   Greenhagen, Benjamin T ^b   Paige, David A ^c  

^a Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Moon, surface; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914146010     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.11.009     Document Type: Article

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