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Authors and Affiliations

  1. International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Università d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy

    Goro Komatsu

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK

    Dave Waltham

  3. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Veronica J. Bray

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  1. NASA Ames Research Center/NPP, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Henrik Hargitai

  2. Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Ákos Kereszturi

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Komatsu, G., Waltham, D., Bray, V.J. (2015). Canali (Venus). In: Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á. (eds) Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3134-3_36

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