Physical properties of Titan's surface at the Huygens landing site from the Surface Science Package Acoustic Properties sensor (API-S)

Icarus

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 457-465

  Towner, M C ^a   Garry, J R C ^b   Lorenz, R D ^e   Hagermann, A ^a   Hathi, B ^a   Svedhem, H ^c   Clark, B C ^d   Leese, M R ^a   Zarnecki, J C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Research and Scientific Support Department   (Netherlands)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751071318     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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