Post-cassini exploration of Titan: Science rationale and mission concepts

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 53, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 218-234

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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CASSINI MISSION; HIGH POWER; MISSION CONCEPTS; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES;

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