The lakes and seas of Titan

AG Hayes - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Analogous to Earth's water cycle, Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle supports standing
bodies of liquid and drives processes that result in common morphologic features including …

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 …

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 …

Reconstructing river flows remotely on Earth, Titan, and Mars

SPD Birch, G Parker, P Corlies, JM Soderblom… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Alluvial rivers are conveyor belts of fluid and sediment that provide a record of upstream
climate and erosion on Earth, Titan, and Mars. However, many of Earth's rivers remain …

Transient surface liquid in Titan's polar regions from Cassini

AG Hayes, O Aharonson, JI Lunine, RL Kirk, HA Zebker… - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
Cassini RADAR images of Titan's south polar region acquired during southern summer
contain lake features which disappear between observations. These features show a tenfold …

[HTML][HTML] Titan's cold case files-Outstanding questions after Cassini-Huygens

CA Nixon, RD Lorenz, RK Achterberg, A Buch… - Planetary and Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
The entry of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft into orbit around Saturn in July 2004 marked
the start of a golden era in the exploration of Titan, Saturn's giant moon. During the Prime …

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 …

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 …

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) …