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 …

ExoMars Atmospheric Mars Entry and Landing Investigations and Analysis (AMELIA)

F Ferri, Ö Karatekin, SR Lewis, F Forget… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
The entry, descent and landing of Schiaparelli, the ExoMars Entry, descent and landing
Demonstrator Module (EDM), offered a rare (once-per-mission) opportunity for in situ …

An intense thermospheric jet on Titan

E Lellouch, MA Gurwell, R Moreno, S Vinatier… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The presence of winds in Titan's lower and middle atmosphere has been determined by a
variety of techniques, including direct measurements from the Huygens Probe over 0–150 …

A major ice component in Pluto's haze

P Lavvas, E Lellouch, DF Strobel, MA Gurwell… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Pluto, Titan and Triton all have low-temperature environments with an N2, CH4 and
CO atmospheric composition in which solar radiation drives an intense organic …

Variability in Titan's Mesospheric HCN and Temperature Structure as Observed by ALMA

AE Thelen, CA Nixon, RG Cosentino… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature structure of Titan's upper atmosphere exhibits large variability resulting
from numerous spatially and temporally irregular external energy sources, seasonal …

N2 state population in Titan's atmosphere

P Lavvas, RV Yelle, AN Heays, L Campbell… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a detailed model for the vibrational population of all non pre-dissociating excited
electronic states of N 2, as well as for the ground and ionic states, in Titan's atmosphere. Our …

Winds and tides of Ligeia Mare, with application to the drift of the proposed time TiME (Titan Mare Explorer) capsule

RD Lorenz, T Tokano, CE Newman - Planetary and Space Science, 2012 - Elsevier
We use two independent General Circulation Models (GCMs) to estimate surface winds at
Titan's Ligeia Mare (78° N, 250° W), motivated by a proposed mission to land a floating …

[PDF][PDF] ExoMars 2016 Schiaparelli Module Trajectory and Atmospheric Profiles Reconstruction.

A Aboudan, G Colombatti, C Bettanini… - Space Science …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Abstract On 19th October 2016 Schiaparelli module of the ExoMars 2016 mission flew
through the Mars atmosphere. After successful entry and descent under parachute, the …

Density waves in Titan's upper atmosphere

J Cui, RV Yelle, T Li, DS Snowden… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Analysis of the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer data reveals the omnipresence of
density waves in various constituents of Titan's upper atmosphere, with quasi‐periodical …

Gravity waves in Titan's lower stratosphere from Huygens probe in situ temperature measurements

RD Lorenz, LA Young, F Ferri - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
The Huygens probe recorded atmospheric temperatures during its parachute descent
through the atmosphere of Titan. A careful analysis of these data reveals for the first time …