Titan's prolific propane: The Cassini CIRS perspective

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1573-1585

  Nixon, C A ^a,b   Jennings, D E ^b   Flaud, J M ^c   Bezard B ^c   Teanby, N A ^d   Irwin, P G J ^d   Ansty, T M ^e   Coustenis, A ^c   Vinatier, S ^c   Flasar, F M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Clarendon Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance retrieval; Atmospheric abundances, outer planets; Infrared spectroscopy; Propane; Titan atmosphere

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE RETRIEVAL; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ACCURATE MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC ABUNDANCES, OUTER PLANETS; CASSINI; CASSINI COMPOSITE INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; EMISSION BANDS; GAS SPECIES; INFRARED BANDS; LABORATORY SPECTROSCOPY; LIMB-VIEWING; LINE POSITIONS; LINELISTS; PATH LENGTH; PROPANE GAS; SPECTRAL REGION; THERMAL INFRARED; TITAN ATMOSPHERE; TRACE SPECIES;

ACETYLENE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ETHANE; GAS EMISSIONS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIGHTING; PLANETS; PROPANE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70350586419     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2009.06.021     Document Type: Article

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