Comment on "Evidence of electrical activity on Titan drawn from the Schumann resonances sent by Huygens probe" by J.A. Morente, J.A. Portí, A. Salinas, E.A. Navarro [2008, Icarus, 195, 802-811]

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 349-351

  Hamelin, M ^a   Grard, R ^b   Lopez Moreno J J ^c   Schwingenschuh, K ^d   Beghin C ^e   Berthelier, J J ^a   Simoes F ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^e LPCE CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Ionospheres; Lightning; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349918159     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.031     Document Type: Note

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