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Wind-induced atmospheric escape: titan
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Sarantos Sr., Menelaos Johnson, Robert Sittler Jr., Edward Hartle, Richard Simpson, David |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | Rapid thermospheric flows can significantly enhance the estimates of the atmospheric loss rate and the structure of the atmospheric corona of a planetary body. In particular, rapid horizontal flow at the exobase can increase the corresponding constituent escape rate. Here we show that such corrections, for both thermal and non-thermal escape, cannot be ignored when calculating the escape of methane from Titan, for which drastically different rates have been proposed. Such enhancements are also relevant to Pluto and exoplanets. |
| File Size | 452192 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120013279 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t42r8tn50 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Methane Stellar Winds Thermosphere Horizontal Distribution Extrasolar Planets Wind Velocity Titan Atmosphere Pluto Planet Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
