Oceans on Titan?
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4605), 55-57
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.221.4605.55
Abstract
If global oceans of methane exist on Titan, the atmosphere above them must be within 2 percent of saturation. The two Voyager radio occultation soundings, made at low latitudes, probably occurred over land, since they imply a relative humidity ≲ 70 percent near the surface. Oceans might exist at other low-latitude locations if the zonal wind velocities in the lowest 3 kilometers are ≤ 4 centimeters per second.Keywords
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