Formation of nitrogenated organic aerosols in the Titan upper atmosphere
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Formation of nitrogenated organic aerosols in the Titan upper atmosphere.
Many aspects of the nitrogen fixation process by photochemistry in the Titan atmosphere are not fully understood. The recent Cassini mission revealed organic aerosol formation in the upper atmosphere of Titan. It is not clear, however, how much and by what mechanism nitrogen is incorporated in Titan's organic aerosols. Using tunable synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Light Source, we demonst...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913353107