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 methane cycle on Titan

JI Lunine, SK Atreya - Nature Geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Titan is the second largest natural satellite in the solar system, and the only
one that possesses a substantial atmosphere. With a surface temperature of 93.7 K at the …

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 …

The lakes of Titan

ER Stofan, C Elachi, JI Lunine, RD Lorenz, B Stiles… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan has long been proposed to have oceans
or lakes, on the basis of the stability of liquid methane at the surface,. Initial visible and radar …

PlanetWRF: A general purpose, local to global numerical model for planetary atmospheric and climate dynamics

MI Richardson, AD Toigo… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A new planetary atmospheric numerical model,“planetWRF,” has been developed by
modifying the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The model has generalized …

Cassini imaging of Titan's high‐latitude lakes, clouds, and south‐polar surface changes

EP Turtle, JE Perry, AS McEwen… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) has been observing Titan since April 2004,
compiling a nearly global surface map and monitoring the surface and atmosphere for …

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 …

Fluvial channels on Titan: initial Cassini RADAR observations

RD Lorenz, RM Lopes, F Paganelli, JI Lunine… - Planetary and Space …, 2008 - Elsevier
Cassini radar images show a variety of fluvial channels on Titan's surface, often several
hundreds of kilometers in length. Some (predominantly at low-and mid-latitude) are radar …

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 …