Correlation between Preliminary Mineralogic and Geologic Maps of Vesta
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A. Frigeri, M.C. De Sanctis, E. Ammannito, R. A. Yingst, S. Mest, F. Capaccioni, B. Garry, G. Magni, E. Palomba, N. Petro, F. Tosi, D. Williams, F. Zambon, R. Jaumann, C.M. Pieters, C.A. Raymond, C.T. Russell and the Dawn Team. Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 00133 Roma, Italy ([email protected]); Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, USA; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; DLR, Berlin, Germany; Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA;
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