Titan's hydrodynamically escaping atmosphere: Escape rates and the structure of the exobase region

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 632-641

  Strobel, Darrell F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeronomy; Atmospheres; dynamics; evolution; structure; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650155085     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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