The detached haze layer in Titan's mesosphere

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 626-633

  Lavvas, Panayotis ^a   Yelle, Roger V ^a   Vuitton, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; structure; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349085500     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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