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Titan's stratospheric zonal wind, temperature, and ethane abundance a year prior to Huygens insertion

Sonnabend, G.; Kostiuk, T.; Murakawa, K. +7 more

Saturn's satellite, Titan, may have stratospheric winds up to ~210 m/s, circling Titan in ~1 terrestrial day compared to its 16-day rotation. Theoretical models explaining such super-rotating winds are not well constrained by observations of Titan or a similar slow rotator, Venus. We report measurements taken in December 2003 of zonal wind near Ti…