The Huygens Doppler Wind Experiment: Titan winds derived from Probe radio frequency measurements

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 613-640

  Bird, M K ^a   Dutta Roy, R ^a   Heyl, M ^a   Allison, M ^b   Asmar, S W ^c   Folkner, W M ^c   Preston, R A ^c   Atkinson, D H ^d   Edenhofer, P ^e   Plettemeier, D ^e   Wohlmuth, R ^e   Iess, L ^f   Tyler, G L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COSMOS; GAS ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARACHUTIST; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; WIND;

EID: 0038240530     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023683004351     Document Type: Review

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