High-altitude production of titan's aerosols

Titan from Cassini-Huygens

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-214

  Waite Jr , J H ^a,b   Young, D T ^a   Westlake, J H ^a,b   Lunine, J I ^c   McKay, C P ^d   Lewis, W S ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9215-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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