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 …

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 …

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 surface and atmosphere from Cassini/VIMS data with updated methane opacity

M Hirtzig, B Bézard, E Lellouch, A Coustenis… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an analysis of Titan data acquired by the Cassini Visual and Infrared Map**
Spectrometer (VIMS), making use of recent improvements in methane spectroscopic …

Titan as the abode of life

CP McKay - Life, 2016 - mdpi.com
Titan is the only world we know, other than Earth, that has a liquid on its surface. It also has a
thick atmosphere composed of nitrogen and methane with a thick organic haze. There are …

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 …

Nature, distribution, and origin of Titan's undifferentiated plains

RMC Lopes, MJ Malaska, A Solomonidou, A Le Gall… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Undifferentiated Plains on Titan, first mapped by Lopes et al.(Lopes, RMC et
al., 2010. Icarus, 205, 540–588), are vast expanses of terrains that appear radar-dark and …

Sand dune patterns on Titan controlled by long-term climate cycles

RC Ewing, AG Hayes, A Lucas - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
Linear sand dunes cover the equatorial latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan and are shaped by
global wind patterns,,. These dunes are thought to reflect present-day diurnal, tidal and …