CO on Titan: More Evidence for a Well-Mixed Vertical Profile

✍ Scribed by Mark A. Gurwell; Duane O. Muhleman

• Book ID: 102568746
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 68 KB
• Volume: 145
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6424

✦ Synopsis

We report new interferometric observations of the CO (2-1) rotational transition on Titan. We find that the spectrum is best fit by a uniform profile of 52 ppm, with estimated errors of 6 ppm (40 to 200 km) and 12 ppm (200 to 300 km).