Cassini RADAR constraint on Titan's winter polar precipitation |
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| Authors: | RD Lorenz RD West |
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| Institution: | a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA
b Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Cassini RADAR instrument made a dedicated cloud backscatter observation near Titan's north pole, presently in winter darkness, to constrain the precipitation of material onto the surface. The detection limit is ∼5 orders of magnitude above that expected in methane rainstorms, and rules out ‘drizzle’ of more than  , placing constraints on the winter accumulation of material on Titan's surface during polar winter. |
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| Keywords: | Titan Radar observations Meteorology |
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