Neptune Science with Argo – A Voyage through the Outer Solar System
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C. J. Hansen (JPL), A. S. Aljabri (JPL), D. Banfield (Cornell), E. B. Bierhaus (LMA), M. Brown (CIT), J. E. Colwell (UCF), M. Dougherty (Imperial College, UK), A. R. Hendrix (JPL), A. Ingersoll (CIT), K. Khurana (UCLA), D. Landau (JPL), A. McEwen (UAz), D. A. Paige (UCLA), C. Paranicas (APL), C. M. Satter (JPL), B. Schmidt (UCLA), M. Showalter (ARC), L. J. Spilker (JPL), T. Spilker (JPL), J. Stansberry (UAz), N. Strange (JPL), M. Tiscareno (Cornell)
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تاریخ انتشار 2009