Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

The lakes and seas of Titan

AG Hayes - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Analogous to Earth's water cycle, Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle supports standing
bodies of liquid and drives processes that result in common morphologic features including …

Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

Simulating the density of organic species in the atmosphere of Titan with a coupled ion-neutral photochemical model

V Vuitton, RV Yelle, SJ Klippenstein, SM Hörst… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a one-dimensional coupled ion-neutral photochemical kinetics and diffusion
model to study the atmospheric composition of Titan in light of new theoretical kinetics …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Modeling climate diversity, tidal dynamics and the fate of volatiles on TRAPPIST-1 planets

M Turbet, E Bolmont, J Leconte, F Forget… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
TRAPPIST-1 planets are invaluable for the study of comparative planetary science outside
our solar system and possibly habitability. Both transit timing variations (TTV) of the planets …

A photochemical model of Titan's atmosphere and ionosphere

VA Krasnopolsky - Icarus, 2009 - Elsevier
A global-mean model of coupled neutral and ion chemistry on Titan has been developed.
Unlike the previous coupled models, the model involves ambipolar diffusion and escape of …

Planetary habitability: lessons learned from terrestrial analogues

LJ Preston, LR Dartnell - International Journal of Astrobiology, 2014 - cambridge.org
Terrestrial analogue studies underpin almost all planetary missions and their use is
essential in the exploration of our Solar system and in assessing the habitability of other …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lid tectonics: Perspectives from silicate planets, dwarf planets, large moons, and large asteroids

RJ Stern, T Gerya, PJ Tackley - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
To better understand Earth's present tectonic style–plate tectonics–and how it may have
evolved from single plate (stagnant lid) tectonics, it is instructive to consider how common it …

The bathymetry of a Titan sea

M Mastrogiuseppe, V Poggiali, A Hayes… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We construct the depth profile—the bathymetry—of Titan's large sea Ligeia Mare from
Cassini RADAR data collected during the 23 May 2013 (T91) nadir‐looking altimetry flyby …