ALBEDO CHANGES ON MARS: THE ROLE OF DUST AEROSOLS AS SEEN BY OMEGA. Mathieu Vincendon
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Vincendon 1 , Y. Langevin 1 , F. Poulet 1 , A. Pommerol 2 , M. J. Wolff 3 , J-P. Bibring 1 , B. Gondet 1 , D. Jouglet 1 , and the OMEGA team, 1 Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS/Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France ([email protected]), 2 Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, UJF/CNRS, Bât. D de Physique, B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France, 3 Space Science Institute, 18970 Cavendish Road, Brookfield, WI 53045, USA.
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