Results from the Huygens probe on Titan

Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-179

  Lebreton, Jean Pierre ^a   Coustenis, Athena ^b   Lunine, Jonathan ^c   Raulin, François ^d   Owen, Tobias ^e   Strobel, Darrell ^f  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassini Huygens; Space missions; Titan

Indexed keywords

CASSINI SPACECRAFT; CASSINI-HUYGENS; CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; HUYGENS PROBE; LANDING SITE; MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOSITION; SPACE MISSIONS; TITAN; TITAN'S ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; NASA; PROBES;

SPACE PROBES;

EID: 67349271309     PISSN: 09354956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-009-0021-5     Document Type: Review

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