Detection of titan's ionosphere from voyager 1 radio occultation observations

Icarus

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 426-436

  Bird, M K ^a   Dutta Roy, R ^a   Asmar, S W ^b   Rebold, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0031537429     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5831     Document Type: Article

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