External supply of oxygen to the atmospheres of the giant planets

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6647, 1997, Pages 159-162

  Feuchtgruber, H ^a,b   Lellouch, E ^c   De Graauw, T ^d   Bezard B ^c   Encrenaz, T ^c   Griffin, M ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; ICE; METHANE; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GAS MIXING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER TRANSPORT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; NEPTUNE; OXYGEN; PLANETS; SATURN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; URANUS; WATER;

EID: 0030816991     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38236     Document Type: Article

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