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Infrared limb sounding of Titan with the cassini composite infrared spectrometer: Effects of the mid-IR detector spatial responses: Errata

Applied Optics 49:29 (2010) 5575-5576

Authors:

CA Nixon, NA Teanby, SB Calcutt, S Aslam, DE Jennings, VG Kunde, FM Flasar, PGJ Irwin, FW Taylor, DA Glenar, MD Smith

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We provide a revised Table 5 for the paper by Nixon et al. [Appl. Opt. 48, 1912 (2009)], in which the abundances of 13CO2 and C 18O were incorrect . © 2010 Optical Society of America.
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Far-infrared opacity sources in Titan's troposphere reconsidered

Icarus 209:2 (2010) 854-857

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R de Kok, PGJ Irwin, NA Teanby

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We use Cassini far-infrared limb and nadir spectra, together with recent Huygens results, to shed new light on the controversial far-infrared opacity sources in Titan's troposphere. Although a global cloud of large CH4 ice particles around an altitude of 30km, together with an increase in tropospheric haze opacity with respect to the stratosphere, can fit nadir and limb spectra well, this cloud does not seem consistent with shortwave measurements of Titan. Instead, the N2-CH4 collision-induced absorption coefficients are probably underestimated by at least 50% for low temperatures. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.
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The science of EChO

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press (CUP) 6:S276 (2010) 359-370

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Giovanna Tinetti, James Y-K Cho, Caitlin A Griffith, Olivier Grasset, Lee Grenfell, Tristan Guillot, Tommi T Koskinen, Julianne I Moses, David Pinfield, Jonathan Tennyson, Marcell Tessenyi, Robin Wordsworth, Alan Aylward, Roy van Boekel, Angioletta Coradini, Therese Encrenaz, Ignas Snellen, Maria R Zapatero-Osorio, Jeroen Bouwman, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Enric Pallé, Franck Selsis, Alessandro Sozzetti, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Thomas Henning, Michael Meyer, Giuseppina Micela, Ignasi Ribas, Daphne Stam, Mark Swain, Oliver Krause, Marc Ollivier, Emanuele Pace, Bruce Swinyard, Peter AR Ade, Nick Achilleos, Alberto Adriani, Craig B Agnor, Cristina Afonso, Carlos Allende Prieto, Gaspar Bakos, Robert J Barber, Michael Barlow, Peter Bernath, Bruno Bézard, Pascal Bordé, Linda R Brown, Arnaud Cassan, Céline Cavarroc, Angela Ciaravella, Charles Cockell, Athéna Coustenis, Camilla Danielski, Leen Decin, Remco De Kok, Olivier Demangeon, Pieter Deroo, Peter Doel, Pierre Drossart, Leigh N Fletcher, Matteo Focardi, Francois Forget, Steve Fossey, Pascal Fouqué, James Frith, Marina Galand, Patrick Gaulme, Jonay I González Hernández, Davide Grassi, Matt J Griffin, Ulrich Grözinger, Manuel Guedel, Pactrick Guio, Olivier Hainaut, Robert Hargreaves, Peter H Hauschildt, Kevin Heng, David Heyrovsky, Ricardo Hueso, Pat Irwin, Lisa Kaltenegger, Patrick Kervella, David Kipping, Geza Kovacs, Antonino La Barbera, Helmut Lammer, Emmanuel Lellouch, Giuseppe Leto, Mercedes Lopez Morales, Miguel A Lopez Valverde, Manuel Lopez-Puertas, Christophe Lovi, Antonio Maggio, Jean-Pierre Maillard, Jesus Maldonado Prado, Jean-Baptiste Marquette, Francisco J Martin-Torres, Pierre Maxted, Steve Miller, Sergio Molinari, David Montes, Amaya Moro-Martin, Olivier Mousis, Napoléon Nguyen Tuong, Richard Nelson, Glenn S Orton, Eric Pantin, Enzo Pascale, Stefano Pezzuto, Ennio Poretti, Raman Prinja, Loredana Prisinzano, Jean-Michel Réess, Ansgar Reiners, Benjamin Samuel, Jorge Sanz Forcada, Dimitar Sasselov, Giorgio Savini, Bruno Sicardy, Alan Smith, Lars Stixrude, Giovanni Strazzulla, Gautam Vasisht, Sandrine Vinatier, Serena Viti, Ingo Waldmann, Glenn J White, Thomas Widemann, Roger Yelle, Yuk Yung, Sergey Yurchenko
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Venus Cloud Properties from Venus Express VIRTIS Observations

AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #42 42 (2010) 994-994

Authors:

J Barstow, FW Taylor, CCC Tsang, CF Wilson, PGJ Irwin, P Drossart, G Piccioni

Global silicate mineralogy of the moon from the diviner lunar radiometer

Science 329:5998 (2010) 1507-1509

Authors:

BT Greenhagen, PG Lucey, MB Wyatt, TD Glotch, CC Allen, JA Arnold, JL Bandfield, NE Bowles, KLD Hanna, PO Hayne, E Song, IR Thomas, DA Paige

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We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment. Most lunar terrains have spectral signatures that are consistent with known lunar anorthosite and basalt compositions. However, the data have also revealed the presence of highly evolved, silica-rich lunar soils in kilometer-scale and larger exposures, expanded the compositional range of the anorthosites that dominate the lunar crust, and shown that pristine lunar mantle is not exposed at the lunar surface at the kilometer scale. Together, these observations provide compelling evidence that the Moon is a complex body that has experienced a diverse set of igneous processes.
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