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Titan's atmosphere: comments on haze content, methane abundance, band shapes, and hydrogen upper limit
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Trafton, L. |
| Copyright Year | 1978 |
| Description | The existence of scatterers in Titan's atmosphere was demonstrated in a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal three years ago. This conclusion was not affected by recent laboratory investigations showing that certain CH4 bands are independent of pressure because it was shown that the reflecting layer model failed to explain Titan's CH4 absorptions regardless on which portion of the curve of growth Titan's CH4 lines lie. Saturn's atmosphere was utilized along the central meridian for studies of CH4 absorption, and to show that the conclusion is insensitive to the moderate scattering there. The quite pronounced role of scattering in Titan's atmosphere strongly suggests that Titan's surface is obscured. |
| File Size | 279114 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19790008596 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t12n9xg03 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1978-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Exploration Planetary Atmospheres Methane Atmospheric Composition Hydrogen Atmospheric Models Light Scattering Jupiter Atmosphere Aerosols Absorption Spectra Line Spectra Titan Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
