Evidence of electrical activity on Titan drawn from the Schumann resonances sent by Huygens probe

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 802-811

  Morente, Juan A ^a   Portí, Jorge A ^a   Salinas, Alfonso ^a   Navarro, Enrique A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ionospheres; Lightning; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249103343     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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