Titan's rotation reveals an internal ocean and changing zonal winds

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5870, 2008, Pages 1649-1651

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Stiles, Bryan W ^b   Kirk, Randolph L ^c   Allison, Michael D ^d   Del Marmo, Paolo Persi ^e   Iess, Luciano ^e   Lunine, Jonathan I ^f   Ostro, Steven J ^b   Hensley, Scott ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EUROPA; MOON; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY ROTATION; RADAR; SATURN; TITAN; ZONAL WIND;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GRAVITY; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; WATER; WIND;

EID: 41149173277     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151639     Document Type: Article

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