Discharge experiments simulating chemical evolution on the surface of Titan

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 616-619

  Plankensteiner, Kristof ^a   Reiner, Hannes ^a   Rode, Bernd M ^a   Mikoviny, Tomas ^b   Wisthaler, Armin ^b   Hansel, Armin ^b   Märk, Tilmann D ^b   Fischer, Georg ^c   Lammer, Helmut ^c   Rucker, Helmut O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Atmospheres; chemistry; Prebiotic chemistry; Satellites; surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847386276     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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