Titan Electromagnetic Response and Surface Roughness Imaged by Cassini Radar
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F. Paganelli, Jakob van Zyl, M.A. Janssen, B. Stiles, R. West, R. M. Lopes, E. Stofan, P. Callahan, L. Roth, S.D. Wall, T.G. Farr, C. Elachi, R.D. Lorenz, L. Soderblom, and the Radar Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109. U.S.A. ([email protected]), Proxemy Research, Bowie, MD 20715, U.S.A., RADAR Team Leader, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A., U. S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, U.S.A.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006