The cassini-huygens ACP experiment and exobiological implications

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 319-331

  Israel, G ^a   Cabane, M ^a   Coll, P ^a,b   Coscia, D ^a,b   Raulin, F ^b   Niemann, H ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOBIOLOGY; SATURN; TITAN;

EID: 0032771977     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00053-8     Document Type: Article

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