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 …

A post-Cassini view of Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle

AG Hayes, RD Lorenz, JI Lunine - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The methane-based hydrologic cycle on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an extreme
analogue to Earth's water cycle. Titan is the only planetary body in the Solar System, other …

Fluvial geomorphology on Earth-like planetary surfaces: A review

VR Baker, CW Hamilton, DM Burr, VC Gulick… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Morphological evidence for ancient channelized flows (fluvial and fluvial-like landforms)
exists on the surfaces of all of the inner planets and on some of the satellites of the Solar …

Fluvial features on Titan: Insights from morphology and modeling

DM Burr, J Taylor Perron, MP Lamb, RP Irwin III… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fluvial features on Titan have been identified in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data taken
during spacecraft flybys by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) and in Descent …

Influence of temperature, composition, and grain size on the tensile failure of water ice: Implications for erosion on Titan

KL Litwin, BR Zygielbaum, PJ Polito… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ice resistance to tensile fracture influences surface morphodynamics on outer planetary
satellites such as Titan, yet measurements of tensile strength and fracture toughness of …

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 …

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) …

Evidence of Titan's climate history from evaporite distribution

SM MacKenzie, JW Barnes, C Sotin, JM Soderblom… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Water–ice-poor, 5-μm-bright material on Saturn's moon Titan has previously been
geomorphologically identified as evaporitic. Here we present a global distribution of the …

Geomorphological map of the Afekan Crater region, Titan: Terrain relationships in the equatorial and mid-latitude regions

MJ Malaska, RMC Lopes, DA Williams, CD Neish… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
We carried out geomorphological map** in a mid-latitude area surrounding the Afekan
Crater region on Titan. We used Cassini RADAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar mode) data as …

[HTML][HTML] Morphology of fluvial networks on Titan: Evidence for structural control

DM Burr, SA Drummond, R Cartwright, BA Black… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
Although Titan's surface shows clear evidence of erosional modification, such as fluvial
incision, evidence for tectonism has been less apparent. On Earth, fluvial networks with …