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 physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Interpretation of snow properties from imaging spectrometry

J Dozier, RO Green, AW Nolin, TH Painter - Remote Sensing of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Snow is among the most “colorful” materials in nature, but most of the variability in snow
reflectance occurs beyond 0.8 µm rather than in the visible spectrum. In these wavelengths …

Detection and mapping of hydrocarbon deposits on Titan

RN Clark, JM Curchin, JW Barnes… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We report the identification of compounds on Titan's surface by spatially resolved imaging
spectroscopy methods through Titan's atmosphere, and set upper limits to other organic …

Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper

RMC Lopes, KL Mitchell, ER Stofan, JI Lunine… - Icarus, 2007 - Elsevier
The Cassini Titan Radar Mapper obtained Synthetic Aperture Radar images of Titan's
surface during four fly-bys during the mission's first year. These images show that Titan's …

Correlations between Cassini VIMS spectra and RADAR SAR images: Implications for Titan's surface composition and the character of the Huygens Probe Landing …

LA Soderblom, RL Kirk, JI Lunine, JA Anderson… - Planetary and Space …, 2007 - Elsevier
Titan's vast equatorial fields of RADAR-dark longitudinal dunes seen in Cassini RADAR
synthetic aperture images correlate with one of two dark surface units discriminated as …

The detectability of rocky planet surface and atmosphere composition with the JWST: the case of LHS 3844b

EA Whittaker, M Malik, J Ih, EMR Kempton… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The spectroscopic characterization of terrestrial exoplanets over a wide spectral range from
the near-to the mid-infrared will be made possible for the first time with the JWST. One …

Distribution and interplay of geologic processes on Titan from Cassini radar data

RMC Lopes, ER Stofan, R Peckyno, J Radebaugh… - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
The Cassini Titan Radar Mapper is providing an unprecedented view of Titan's surface
geology. Here we use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image swaths (Ta–T30) obtained …

Untangling the chemical evolution of Titan's atmosphere and surface–from homogeneous to heterogeneous chemistry

RI Kaiser, P Maksyutenko, C Ennis, F Zhang… - Faraday …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
In this article, we first explored the chemical dynamics of simple diatomic radicals (dicarbon,
methylidyne) utilizing the crossed molecular beams method. This versatile experimental …

Spectroscopy, morphometry, and photoclinometry of Titan's dunefields from Cassini/VIMS

JW Barnes, RH Brown, L Soderblom, C Sotin… - Icarus, 2008 - Elsevier
Fine-resolution (500 m/pixel) Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) T20
observations of Titan resolve that moon's sand dunes. The spectral variability in some dune …