Transient clouds in Titan's lower atmosphere

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6702, 1998, Pages 575-578

  Griffith, Caitlin A ^a   Owen, Tobias ^b   Miller, Gary A ^a   Geballe, Thomas ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CLOUD; HAZE; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; METHANE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 0032497530     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26920     Document Type: Article

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