Optical properties of analogs of Titan’s aerosols produced by dusty plasma
Journal: Earth Planets and Space
Year: 2013

Analogs of Titan’s aerosols are produced in the laboratory as grains in a gas mixture, or as layers on a substrate. This production procedure enables the methane-nitrogen mixture composition to be changed. The aim of this paper is to understand the variations observed on the linear polarization of the scattered light as a function of the production conditions. The influence of the concentration of methane injected in the plasma will be discussed and compared with the previous work of Hadamcik et