12C/13C ratio in ethane on titan and implications for methane's replenishment.

The (12)C/(13)C abundance ratio in ethane in the atmosphere of Titan has been measured at 822 cm(-1) from high spectral resolution ground-based observations. The value, 89(8), coincides with the telluric standard and also agrees with the ratio seen in the outer planets. It is almost identical to the result for ethane on Titan found by the composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini.