The abundances of constituents of Titan's atmosphere from the GCMS instrument on the Huygens probe

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 779-784

  Niemann, H B ^a   Atreya, S K ^b   Bauer, S J ^c   Carignan, G R ^b   Demick, J E ^a   Frost, R L ^g   Gautier, D ^d   Haberman, J A ^a   Harpold, D N ^a   Hunten, D M ^e   Israel, G ^f   Lunine, J I ^e   Kasprzak, W T ^a   Owen, T C ^h   Paulkovich, M ^a   Raulin, F ⁱ   Raaen, E ^a   Way, S H ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; DEGASSING; INERT GASES; METHANE; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING;

CASSINI SPACECRAFT; ISOTOPIC RATIOS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ARGON; ETHANE; METHANE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RADIOISOTOPE;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPACECRAFT; TITAN;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENT; MASS SPECTROMETER; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOON; OBSERVATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SCINTISCANNING; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 28644449983     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04122     Document Type: Article

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