Titan's atmosphere from ISO mid-infrared spectroscopy

Icarus

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 383-403

  Coustenis, Athena ^a   Salama, A ^b   Schulz, B ^b,d   Ott, S ^b   Lellouch, E ^a   Encrenaz, Th ^a   Gautier, D ^a   Feuchtgruber, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^c Max Planck   (Germany)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Infrared observations; ISO; Satellites; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037297836     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00028-3     Document Type: Review

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