An overview of the descent and landing of the Huygens probe on Titan

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 758-764

  Lebreton, Jean Pierre ^a   Witasse, Olivier ^a   Sollazzo, Claudio ^b   Blancquaert, Thierry ^a   Couzin, Patrice ^c   Schipper, Anne Marie ^c   Jones, Jeremy B ^d   Matson, Dennis L ^d   Gurvits, Leonid I ^e   Atkinson, David H ^f   Kazeminejad, Bobby ^g   Pérez Ayúcar, Miguel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ESA ESOC   (Germany)

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^g University of Idaho Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METHANE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

THE VOYAGER SPACECRAFT; TITAN MOON;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ICE; METHANE; NITROGEN;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY SATELLITE; SPACECRAFT; TITAN;

AIR SAMPLING; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BRIGHTNESS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DARKNESS; HAZE; LAKE; LANDSCAPE; MOON; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SEASHORE; SPACE FLIGHT; THICKNESS; TRAVEL; WIND EROSION;

EID: 28644446477     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04347     Document Type: Review

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