The upper atmosphere of Titan

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Dec 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985esasp.241..125b&link_type=abstract

In ESA The Atmospheres of Saturn and Titan p 125-128 (SEE N86-28849 19-88)

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Satellite Atmospheres, Titan, Upper Atmosphere, Airglow, Atmospheric Temperature, Electron Impact, Nitrogen, Voyager 1 Spacecraft

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Voyager 1 observations determined the predominance of N2 in Titan's upper atmosphere, its exospheric temperature, and its minor species. Electron impact on N2 within Saturn's magnetosphere appears to be the main source of the airglow emissions and of an undetected ionosphere. Escape of hydrogen from Titan seems to supply the hydrogen torus in the Saturn system, while nonthermal escape of nitrogen can account (partially) for mass loss of Titan's atmosphere since the origin of the solar system.

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