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Organic Ices in Titan's Stratosphere

Anderson, C. M.; Samuelson, R. E.; Nna-Mvondo, D.

Titan's stratospheric ice clouds are by far the most complex of any observed in the solar system, with over a dozen organic vapors condensing out to form a suite of pure and co-condensed ices, typically observed at high winter polar latitudes. Once these stratospheric ices are formed, they will diffuse throughout Titan's lower atmosphere and most …