Titan's interior structure

Titan from Cassini-Huygens

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-73

  Sotin, Christophe ^a   Mitri, Giuseppe ^a   Rappaport, Nicole ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^b   Stevenson, David ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9215-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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