CO on Titan: More Evidence for a Well-Mixed Vertical Profile

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 653-656

  Gurwell, Mark A ^a   Muhleman, Duane O ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundances; Atmosphere; Composition; Radio observations; Spectroscopy; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001273331     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6424     Document Type: Article

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