Is Serpentinization the Source of Titan’s Atmospheric Methane?
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Lunine, M. Pasek, D. Cordier, J. H. Waite Jr., K. E. Mandt, W. S. Lewis, and M.-J. Nguyen, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA ([email protected]), Université de FrancheComté, Institut UTINAM, CNRS/INSU, UMR 6213, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Besançon, France, Université de Rennes 1, Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6251, France, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France, Space Science and Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228, USA.
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