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 …

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 …

The climate of Titan

JL Mitchell, JM Lora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, the Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturn system has revolutionized
our understanding of Titan and its climate. Veiled in a thick organic haze, Titan's visible …

GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations

JM Lora, JI Lunine, JL Russell - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the
Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral …

[KIRJA][B] Comparative climatology of terrestrial planets

RŽ Dotson - 2014 - books.google.com
The early development of life, a fundamental question for humankind, requires the presence
of a suitable planetary climate. Our understanding of how habitable planets come to be …

Exomoon habitability constrained by illumination and tidal heating

R Heller, R Barnes - Astrobiology, 2013 - liebertpub.com
The detection of moons orbiting extrasolar planets (“exomoons”) has now become feasible.
Once they are discovered in the circumstellar habitable zone, questions about their …

Cepheids with giant companions-II. Spectroscopic confirmation of nine new double-lined binary systems composed of two Cepheids

B Pilecki, IB Thompson, F Espinoza-Arancibia… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Binary Cepheids with giant companions are crucial for studying the physical
properties of Cepheid variables, in particular providing the best means to measure their …

Titan's climate patterns and surface methane distribution due to the coupling of land hydrology and atmosphere

SP Faulk, JM Lora, JL Mitchell, PCD Milly - Nature Astronomy, 2020 - nature.com
Planetary surfaces beyond Earth's are impacted by surface hydrology, and exhibit fluvial and
lacustrine features. Titan in particular harbours a rich hydroclimate replete with valley …

Dust accumulation and lifting at the landing site of the Mars 2020 mission, Jezero crater, as observed from MEDA

A Vicente‐Retortillo, MT Lemmon… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We quantify the effect of dust accumulation at Jezero crater by means of a Dust Correction
Factor (DCF) for the solar radiation measured by the photodiodes of the Radiation and Dust …

Sea level rise and extreme events along the Mediterranean coasts: the case of Venice and the awareness of local population, stakeholders and policy makers

M Anzidei, T Alberti, A Vecchio, X Loizidou… - … Lincei. Scienze Fisiche …, 2024 - Springer
Sea level rise (SLR) is among the major climate change effects threating the coasts of the
Mediterranean basin, which are increasingly exposed to coastal flooding, especially along …