Cassini CIRS update on stratospheric ices at Titan's winter pole

Icarus

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-71

  Samuelson, Robert E ^a   Smith, Michael D ^b   Achterberg, Richard K ^a   Pearl, John C ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; composition; Ices; IR spectroscopy; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249713574     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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