Titan's corona: The contribution of exothermic chemistry

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 236-250

  De La Haye, V ^a   Waite Jr , J H ^a   Cravens, T E ^b   Nagy, A F ^c   Johnson, R E ^d   Lebonnois, S ^e   Robertson, I P ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

atmospheres; Atmospheres chemistry; Collisional physics; Photochemistry; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348889605     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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