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 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 …

Rapid and extensive surface changes near Titan's equator: Evidence of April showers

EP Turtle, JE Perry, AG Hayes, RD Lorenz, JW Barnes… - science, 2011 - science.org
Although there is evidence that liquids have flowed on the surface at Titan's equator in the
past, to date, liquids have only been confirmed on the surface at polar latitudes, and the vast …

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 …

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 geomorphology on Earth-like planetary surfaces: A review

VR Baker, CW Hamilton, DM Burr, VC Gulick… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Morphological evidence for ancient channelized flows (fluvial and fluvial-like landforms)
exists on the surfaces of all of the inner planets and on some of the satellites of the Solar …

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 …