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Titan's Rotation Reveals an Internal Ocean and Changing Zonal Winds

Overview of attention for article published in Science, March 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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Title
Titan's Rotation Reveals an Internal Ocean and Changing Zonal Winds
Published in
Science, March 2008
DOI 10.1126/science.1151639
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Authors

Ralph D. Lorenz, Bryan W. Stiles, Randolph L. Kirk, Michael D. Allison, Paolo Persi del Marmo, Luciano Iess, Jonathan I. Lunine, Steven J. Ostro, Scott Hensley

Abstract

Cassini radar observations of Saturn's moon Titan over several years show that its rotational period is changing and is different from its orbital period. The present-day rotation period difference from synchronous spin leads to a shift of approximately 0.36 degrees per year in apparent longitude and is consistent with seasonal exchange of angular momentum between the surface and Titan's dense superrotating atmosphere, but only if Titan's crust is decoupled from the core by an internal water ocean like that on Europa.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 6%
Canada 2 3%
Italy 1 1%
Puerto Rico 1 1%
Unknown 68 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 26%
Professor 7 9%
Student > Master 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 5 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 33 43%
Physics and Astronomy 20 26%
Chemistry 7 9%
Engineering 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 01 January 2016.
All research outputs
#2,000,653
of 22,950,943 outputs
Outputs from Science
#26,965
of 78,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,240
of 81,920 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#122
of 350 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,950,943 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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