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Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply)

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Biemann et al.1 calls into question our preliminary interpretations of our experimental results2. A comparison of laboratory and flight measurements should settle the uncertainties he raises. In addition to evaluating instrumental characteristics such as the 'piston effect', a technique we used for injecting oven-gas content for gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS), such studies should enable a wide range of possible compositions for Titan's aerosols to be investigated. Our aerosol collection and pyrolysis (ACP) measurements in Titan's atmosphere can then be revisited.

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  1. Service d'Aéronomie UMR 7620 CNRS, ISPL, Universities Paris 6 and Versailles-Saint Quentin, Verrières-le-Buisson, 91371, France

    G. Israël, C. Szopa, M. Cabane, J.-F. Brun, E. Chassefière & A. Hauchecorne

  2. Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR 7583 CNRS, Universities Paris 12 and Paris 7, Créteil, 94010, France

    F. Raulin, P. Coll, D. Coscia, M. J. Nguyen & R. Sternberg

  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, 20771, Maryland, USA

    H. B. Niemann

  4. Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan, USA

    S. K. Atreya

  5. Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria

    S. J. Bauer

  6. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, 31401, France

    E. Condé

  7. Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Toulouse, 31055, France

    P. Millian & J.-M. Siguier

  8. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 96822, Hawaii, USA

    T. Owen

  9. Space Research Institute, Graz, 8010, Austria

    W. Riedler

  10. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA

    R. E. Samuelson

  11. Institut für Weltraumforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz, 8042, Austria

    M. Steller

  12. Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Polymères, UMR 7581 CNRS, Thiais, 94320, France

    C. Vidal-Madjar

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Israël, G., Szopa, C., Raulin, F. et al. Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply). Nature 444, E6–E7 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05418x

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