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| Title |
The identification of liquid ethane in Titan’s Ontario Lacus
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| Published in |
Nature, July 2008
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| DOI | 10.1038/nature07100 |
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| Authors |
R. H. Brown, L. A. Soderblom, J. M. Soderblom, R. N. Clark, R. Jaumann, J. W. Barnes, C. Sotin, B. Buratti, K. H. Baines, P. D. Nicholson |
| Abstract |
Titan was once thought to have global oceans of light hydrocarbons on its surface, but after 40 close flybys of Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, it has become clear that no such oceans exist. There are, however, features similar to terrestrial lakes and seas, and widespread evidence for fluvial erosion, presumably driven by precipitation of liquid methane from Titan's dense, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere. Here we report infrared spectroscopic data, obtained by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft, that strongly indicate that ethane, probably in liquid solution with methane, nitrogen and other low-molecular-mass hydrocarbons, is contained within Titan's Ontario Lacus. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 93 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 86 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 25 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 10% |
| Professor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 14 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 34 | 37% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 24 | 26% |
| Chemistry | 8 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Unknown | 17 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 October 2023.
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#2,272,644
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#42,943
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#6,262
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#179
of 560 outputs
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