Determining a tilt in Titan's north-south albedo asymmetry from Cassini images

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 242-249

  Roman, Michael T ^a   West, Robert A ^b   Banfield, Donald J ^a   Gierasch, Peter J ^a   Achterberg, Richard K ^c   Nixon, Conor A ^c   Thomas, Peter C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; dynamics; structure; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949192796     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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