The 12C/13C ratio on titan from Cassini INMS measurements and implications for the evolution of methane

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 749, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mandt, Kathleen E ^a,b   Waite, J Hunter ^a   Teolis, Benjamin ^a   Magee, Brian A ^a   Bell, Jared ^a   Westlake, Joseph H ^c   Nixon, Conor A ^d   Mousis, Olivier ^e   Lunine, Jonathan I ^f  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques La Bouloie   (France)

^f Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

planets and satellites: general; planets and satellites: individual (Titan)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859569498     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/749/2/160     Document Type: Article

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