A Global Sub-surface Alkanifer System on Titan?
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1 , B. Stiles 1 , H. A. Zebker 2 , R. L. Kirk 3 , J. I. Lunine 4 , A. Hayes 5 , C. A. Wood 6 , R. D. Lorenz 7 , E. R. Stofan 8 , R. M. C. Lopes 1 , S. Vance 1 and the Cassini RADAR Team, 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA, , 2 Stanford Univ., 3 USGS Flagstaff, 4 Univ. Arizona, 5 Caltech, 6 Wheeling Jesuit University, 7 Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab. 8 Proxemy Resarch Inc.
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