Titan atmospheric composition by hypervelocity shock-layer analysis

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 157-165

  Nelson, H F ^a   Park, Chul ^b   Whiting, Ellis E ^c  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; RADIOMETERS - APPLICATIONS;

HYPERVELOCITY SHOCK-LAYER ANALYSIS; SATURN MOON TITAN; SHOCK LAYER RADIOMETER EXPERIMENT; STAGNATION-POINT HEATING; TITAN ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; TITAN PROBE MISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

EID: 0026141276     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.243     Document Type: Article

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