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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
"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 |
ELSI Researchers|Yuka Fujii