Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 385-394

  Mitri, Giuseppe ^a   Showman, Adam P ^a   Lunine, Jonathan I ^a,b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INAF   (Italy)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Geophysics; satellites; Satellites; Saturn; surface; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846312870     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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