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 …

Titan tholins: Simulating Titan organic chemistry in the Cassini-Huygens era

ML Cable, SM Hörst, R Hodyss… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Titan is the gem of the Saturnian system, an icy world laden with organics and shrouded in
an auburn haze. Due in large part to the discoveries of the Cassini-Huygens mission to the …

New experimental constraints on the composition and structure of tholins

E Quirico, G Montagnac, V Lees, PF McMillan, C Szopa… - Icarus, 2008 - Elsevier
Powdered samples of carbon–nitrogen-hydrogen “tholins” that mimic Titan's atmosphere
aerosols were produced under levitation conditions in the laboratory with a dusty plasma …

Sublimation of water ice mixed with silicates and tholins: Evolution of surface texture and reflectance spectra, with implications for comets

O Poch, A Pommerol, B Jost, N Carrasco, C Szopa… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
The surfaces of many objects in the Solar System comprise substantial quantities of water
ice sometimes mixed with minerals and/or organic molecules. The sublimation of the ice …

Prebiotic-like chemistry on Titan

F Raulin, C Brassé, O Poch, P Coll - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, is the only one in the solar system with a dense
atmosphere. Mainly composed of dinitrogen with several% of methane, this atmosphere …

Titan's surface and atmosphere from Cassini/VIMS data with updated methane opacity

M Hirtzig, B Bézard, E Lellouch, A Coustenis… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an analysis of Titan data acquired by the Cassini Visual and Infrared Map**
Spectrometer (VIMS), making use of recent improvements in methane spectroscopic …

Ring particle composition and size distribution

J Cuzzi, R Clark, G Filacchione, R French… - Saturn from Cassini …, 2009 - Springer
We review recent progress concerning the composition and size distribution of the particles
in Saturn's main ring system, and describe how these properties vary from place to place …

Titan as revealed by the Cassini radar

RMC Lopes, SD Wall, C Elachi, SPD Birch… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft's arrival in July 2004. We
review the major scientific advances made by Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) …

Optical constants of Titan tholins at mid-infrared wavelengths (2.5–25 μm) and the possible chemical nature of Titan's haze particles

H Imanaka, DP Cruikshank, BN Khare, CP McKay - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
Complex organic materials may exist as haze layers in the atmosphere of Titan and as dark
coloring agents on icy satellite surfaces. Laboratory measurements of optical constants of …

The Titan Haze Simulation (THS) experiment on COSmIC. Part II. Ex-situ analysis of aerosols produced at low temperature

E Sciamma-O'Brien, KT Upton, F Salama - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first results of the solid phase analysis of the Titan tholins generated
in the Titan Haze Simulation (THS) experiments. This study complements the gas phase …