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A-PI Yuka Fujii's study was published in the Astronomical Journal on October 20, 2017

A-PI Yuka Fujii's study was published in the Astronomical Journal on October 20, 2017.

Article title: Rotational Spectral Unmixing of Exoplanets: Degeneracies between Surface Colors and Geography


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"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 km (18,000 mi).

Journal:

The Astronomical Journal

Title of original paper

Rotational Spectral Unmixing of Exoplanets: Degeneracies between Surface Colors and Geography

Authors:

Yuka Fujii1,2, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger3,4,5, and Nicolas B. Cowan6,7

Affiliations

1 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA

2 Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan

3 Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Box 951580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

4 Astrobiology Program, University of Washington, 3910 15th Avenue NE, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

5 NASA Astrobiology Institute--Virtual Planetary Laboratory Lead Team, USA

6 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0E8, Canada

7 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0E8, Canada

DOI 10.3847/1538-3881/aa89f1
Online published

October 17, 2017


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