The origin and evolution of titan

Titan from Cassini-Huygens

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-59

  Lunine, Jonathan ^a   Choukroun, Mathieu ^b   Stevenson, David ^c   Tobie, Gabriel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9215-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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