Large ocean worlds with high-pressure ices

B Journaux, K Kalousová, C Sotin, G Tobie… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Pressures in the hydrospheres of large ocean worlds extend to ranges exceeding those in
Earth deepest oceans. In this regime, dense water ices and other high-pressure phases …

Ice-ocean exchange processes in the Jovian and Saturnian satellites

KM Soderlund, K Kalousová, JJ Buffo, CR Glein… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
A growing number of satellites in the outer solar system likely have global oceans beneath
their outer icy shells. While the presence of liquid water makes these ocean worlds …

Titan's interior structure and dynamics after the Cassini-Huygens mission

C Sotin, K Kalousová, G Tobie - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The Cassini-Huygens mission that explored the Saturn system during the period 2004–2017
revolutionized our understanding of Titan, the only known moon with a dense atmosphere …

Serpentinite and the search for life beyond Earth

SD Vance, M Melwani Daswani - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hydrogen from serpentinization is a source of chemical energy for some life forms on Earth.
It is a potential fuel for life in the subsurface of Mars and in the icy ocean worlds in the outer …

The insulating effect of methane clathrate crust on Titan's thermal evolution

K Kalousová, C Sotin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Saturn's largest moon Titan is unique for its dense, methane‐rich atmosphere, with ongoing
complex organics chemistry, and the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on its frigid surface. Titan …

Evolution of impact melt pools on Titan

K Kalousová, S Wakita, C Sotin… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is an ocean world with a dense atmosphere, where photochemistry produces complex
organic molecules that fall to the surface. An important astrobiological question is whether …

Observational evidence for summer rainfall at Titan's north pole

RD Dhingra, JW Barnes, RH Brown… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Methane rain on Saturn's moon Titan makes it the only place, other than Earth, where rain
interacts with the surface. When and where that rain wets the surface changes seasonally in …

Tiger: concept study for a New Frontiers Enceladus habitability mission

EM Spiers, JM Weber, C Venigalla… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Data returned from the Cassini–Huygens mission have strengthened Enceladus, a small icy
moon of Saturn, as an important target in the search for life in our solar system. Information …

Solar system science with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope

BJ Holler, SN Milam, JM Bauer… - Journal of …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a community-led assessment of the solar system investigations achievable with
NASA's next-generation space telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope …

Simulation of radiating non-equilibrium flows around a capsule entering Titan's atmosphere

J Beyer, P Nizenkov, S Fasoulas… - AIP Conference …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A radiation solver and a radiative transfer solver are implemented in the open-source
plasma suite PICLas to reduce uncertainties in the prediction of convective and radiative …