On the volatile inventory of Titan from isotopic abundances in nitrogen and methane

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10-11, 1999, Pages 1291-1303

  Lunine, Jonathan I ^a,c   Yung, Yuk L ^b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^c  

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; METHANE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; MICROCLIMATE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEUTERIUM; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SATURN;

EID: 0033205815     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(99)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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