Titan airglow spectra from the Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph: FUV disk analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ajello, Joseph M ^a   Gustin, Jacques ^b   Stewart, Ian ^b   Larsen, Kristopher ^b   Esposito, Larry ^b   Pryor, Wayne ^c   McClintock, William ^b   Stevens, Michael H ^d   Malone, Charles P ^a   Dziczek, Dariusz ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Central Arizona College   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; HYDROCARBONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MIXING RATIOS; ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AIRGLOW; ALBEDO; IMAGING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOLAR POWER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TITAN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 44349161653     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032315     Document Type: Article

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