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Keck Infrared Observations of Jupiter's Ring System near Earth's 1997 Ring Plane Crossing

✍ Scribed by Imke de Pater; Mark R. Showalter; Joseph A. Burns; Philip D. Nicholson; Michael C. Liu; Douglas P. Hamilton; James R. Graham

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 624 KB
Volume: 138
Category: Article
ISSN: 0019-1035
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6068

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