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 …

Ocean worlds in the outer solar system

F Nimmo, RT Pappalardo - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many outer solar system bodies are thought to harbor liquid water oceans beneath their ice
shells. This article first reviews how such oceans are detected. We then discuss how they …

Advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation and agricultural crops

PS Thenkabail, JG Lyon, A Huete - … , Sensor Systems, Spectral …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

Comb-type grafted hydrogels with rapid deswelling response to temperature changes

R Yoshida, K Uchida, Y Kaneko, K Sakai, A Kikuchi… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
MANY polymeric hydrogels undergo abrupt changes in volume in response to external
stimuli such as changes in solvent composition1, pH2, electric field3 and temperature4–6 …

Photochemistry of the atmosphere of Titan-Comparison between model and observations

YL Yung, M Allen, JP Pinto - … Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 55 …, 1984 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Updated chemical schemes and estimates of key rate coefficients are used in the present
investigation of the photochemistry of Titan atmosphere CH-and O-atom containing simple …

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 …

In situ measurements of the physical characteristics of Titan's environment

M Fulchignoni, F Ferri, F Angrilli, AJ Ball, A Bar-Nun… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
On the basis of previous ground-based and fly-by information, we knew that Titan's
atmosphere was mainly nitrogen, with some methane, but its temperature and pressure …

The thermal structure of Titan's atmosphere

CP McKay, JB Pollack, R Courtin - Icarus, 1989 - Elsevier
We have developed a radiative-convective model of the thermal structure of Titan's
atmosphere. The model computes the solar and infrared radiation in a series of spectral …

Episodic outgassing as the origin of atmospheric methane on Titan

G Tobie, JI Lunine, C Sotin - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, has a massive nitrogen atmosphere containing up to 5 per
cent methane near its surface. Photochemistry in the stratosphere would remove the present …

Thermodynamics of clathrate hydrate at low and high pressures with application to the outer solar system

JI Lunine, DJ Stevenson - … Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 58 …, 1985 - adsabs.harvard.edu
The thermodynamic stability of clathrate hydrate is calculated to predict the formation
conditions corresponding to a range of solar system parameters. The calculations were …