Titan's vertical aerosol structure at the Huygens landing site: Constraints on particle size, density, charge, and refractive index

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 832-842

  Lavvas, P ^a   Yelle, R V ^a   Griffith, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049528760     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.025     Document Type: Article

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