Winds on Titan from ground-based tracking of the Huygens probe

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Folkner, William M ^a   Asmar, Sami W ^a   Border, J S ^a   Franklin, G W ^a   Finley, S G ^a   Gorelik, J ^a   Johnston, D V ^a   Kerzhanovich, V V ^a   Lowe, S T ^a   Preston, Robert A ^a   Bird, M K ^b   Dutta Roy, R ^b   Allison, M ^c   Atkinson, D H ^d   Edenhofer, P ^e   Plettemeier, D ^f   Tyler, G L ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PROBE; RADIOMETER; TITAN; TRACKING; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

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EID: 33751093761     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002649     Document Type: Article

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