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Jason W Barnes1, Robert H Brown, Elizabeth P Turtle

  • 1Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. jbarnes@lpl.arizona.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 8, 2005
PubMed
まとめ

カッシーニ宇宙船のデータは,タイタンの明るいスポットを明らかにし,それはおそらく地表の組成の変化によって引き起こされ,おそらく最近の地質活動に関連している. この発見は,タイタンのダイナミックな表面に関する新しい洞察を提供します.

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