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 physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

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 …

[LIBRO][B] Geomorphology of desert dunes

N Lancaster - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 GEOMORPHOLOGY OF DESERT DUNES Sand dunes cover up to a
quarter of many desert regions. Determining the factors that determine their shape, size and …

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 …

Modern Mars' geomorphological activity, driven by wind, frost, and gravity

S Diniega, AM Bramson, B Buratti, P Buhler, DM Burr… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Extensive evidence of landform-scale martian geomorphic changes has been acquired in
the last decade, and the number and range of examples of surface activity have increased …

Titan's inventory of organic surface materials

RD Lorenz, KL Mitchell, RL Kirk… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini RADAR observations now permit an initial assessment of the inventory of two
classes, presumed to be organic, of Titan surface materials: polar lake liquids and equatorial …

Selection and characteristics of the Dragonfly landing site near Selk crater, Titan

RD Lorenz, SM MacKenzie, CD Neish… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The factors contributing to the initial selection of a dune site near the Selk impact structure
on Titan as the first landing site for the Dragonfly mission are described. These include …

Cryovolcanism on Titan: New results from Cassini RADAR and VIMS

RMC Lopes, RL Kirk, KL Mitchell… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of cryovolcanic features on Titan has been the subject of some controversy.
Here we use observations from the Cassini RADAR, including Synthetic Aperture Radar …

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 …