Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
May 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..251a&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 251-252 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Hydrocarbons, Microwave Frequencies, Permittivity, Planetary Composition, Planetary Surfaces, Satellite Surfaces, Pressure Effects, Remote Sensing, Temperature Dependence, Titan
Scientific paper
The model of Titan at present has the surface temperature, pressure, and composition such that there is a possibility of a binary ethane-methane ocean. Proposed experiments for future Titan flybys include microwave mappers. Very little has been measured of the dielectric properties of the small hydrocarbons at these radar frequencies. An experiment was conducted utilizing a slotted line to measure the dielectric properties of the hydrocarbons, methane to heptane, from room temperature to -180 C. Measurements of the real part of the dielectric constants are accurate to + or - 0.006 and the imaginary part (the loss tangent) of the liquids studied is less than or equal to 0.001. In order to verify this low loss tangent, the real part of the dielectric constant of hexane at 25 C was studied as a function of the frequency range of the slotted line system used. The dielectric constant of hexane at room temperature, between 500 MHz and 3 MHz, is constant within experimental error.
Anicich Vincent G.
Huntress Wesley T. Jr.
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