Methane abundance on Titan, measured by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 375-385

  Lemmon, Mark T ^a   Smith, Peter H ^b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance, atmospheres; Atmospheres, composition; Satellites, atmospheres; Spectrophotometry; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036948696     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6979     Document Type: Article

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