Rain, winds and haze during the Huygens probe's descent to Titan's surface

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 765-778

  Tomasko, M G ^a   Archinal, B ^b   Becker, T ^b   Bezard B ^c   Bushroe, M ^a   Combes, M ^c   Cook, D ^b   Coustenis, A ^c   De Bergh, C ^c   Dafoe, L E ^a   Doose, L ^a   Doute S ^d   Eibl, A ^a   Engel, S ^a   Gliem, F ^e   Grieger, B ^f   Holso, K ^a   Howington Kraus, E ^b   Karkoschka, E ^a   Keller, H U ^f   Kirk, R ^b   Kramm, R ^f   Kuppers M ^f   Lanagan, P ^a   Lellouch, E ^c   Lemmon, M ^g   Lunine, J ^a,h   McFarlane, E ^a   Moores, J ^a   Prout, G M ^a   Rizk, B ^a   Rosiek, M ^b   Rueffer, P ^e   Schroder S E ^f   Schmitt, B ^d   See, C ^a   Smith, P ^a   Soderblom, L ^b   Thomas, N ⁱ   West, R ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INAF   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

HAZE PARTICLES; SUBSURFACE METHANE RESERVOIR;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

HYDROCARBON; ICE; METHANE; RAIN; WATER;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPACECRAFT; TITAN;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DARKNESS; DENSITY; FLOW KINETICS; HAZE; HUMIDITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENT; LIQUID; MATERIALS; MOON; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; REFLECTOMETRY; RESERVOIR; RIVER; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SMOG; SPACE; STRATOSPHERE; WATER ABSORPTION; WIND;

EID: 28644450685     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04126     Document Type: Article

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