A tidal explanation for the Titan haze layers

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-478

  Walterscheid, Richard L ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; atmospheric; dynamics; Satellites of Saturn; Tides; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745926552     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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