Whole-disk Photometric and Colorimetric Phase Curves of Earth with the Clementine Lunar Orbiter

arXiv:2609.36291 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

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• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Spectral Signature — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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