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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Polar methane accumulation and rainstorms on Titan from simulations of the methane cycle

T Schneider, SDB Graves, EL Schaller, ME Brown - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Titan has a methane cycle akin to Earth's water cycle. It has lakes in polar regions,,
preferentially in the north; dry low latitudes with fluvial features, and occasional rainstorms,; …

A global geomorphologic map of Saturn's moon Titan

RMC Lopes, MJ Malaska, AM Schoenfeld… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic
landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the Solar System. Despite …

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 …

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 …

Titan's meteorology over the Cassini mission: Evidence for extensive subsurface methane reservoirs

EP Turtle, JE Perry, JM Barbara… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini observations of Titan's weather patterns over> 13 years, almost half a Saturnian
year, provide insight into seasonal circulation patterns and the methane cycle. The Imaging …