A soft solid surface on Titan as revealed by the Huygens Surface Science Package

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 792-795

  Zarnecki, John C ^a   Leese, Mark R ^a   Hathi, Brijen ^a   Ball, Andrew J ^a   Hagermann, Axel ^a   Towner, Martin C ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^b   McDonnell, J Anthony M ^a   Green, Simon F ^a   Patel, Manish R ^a   Ringrose, Timothy J ^a   Rosenberg, Philip D ^a   Atkinson, Karl R ^a   Paton, Mark D ^a   Banaszkiewicz, Marek ^c   Clark, Benton C ^d   Ferri, Francesca ^e   Fulchignoni, Marcello ^f   Ghafoor, Nadeem A L ^g   Kargl, Günter ^h   Svedhem, Håkan ⁱ   Delderfield, John ^j   Grande, Manuel ^j   Parker, David J ^j   Challenor, Peter G ^k   Geake, John E ^l   more..

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^g MD Robotics   (Canada)

^h Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^j RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^k NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AEROSOLS; SATELLITES;

PENETROMETRY; TITAN;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ICE;

PLANETARY SURFACE; TITAN;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLAY; COMPRESSION; HARDNESS; HAZE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SCIENCE; SCINTISCANNING; SOLID; SOUND; THICKNESS;

EID: 28644450404     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04211     Document Type: Article

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