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 …

Reconstructing river flows remotely on Earth, Titan, and Mars

SPD Birch, G Parker, P Corlies… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Alluvial rivers are conveyor belts of fluid and sediment that provide a record of upstream
climate and erosion on Earth, Titan, and Mars. However, many of Earth's rivers remain …

Moisture transport and the methane cycle of Titan's lower atmosphere

JM Lora - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Titan's surface and lower atmosphere support a hydrologic cycle that influences various
aspects of the icy moon's appearance and evolution. Here, we review the state of knowledge …

Capillary processes in extraterrestrial contexts

D Cordier, G Liger‐Belair… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth is no longer the only known celestial body containing one or more liquid phases.
The Cassini spacecraft has discovered seas of hydrocarbons at the surface of Titan, while a …

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 …

Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

SM MacKenzie, SPD Birch, S Hörst… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Thanks to the Cassini–Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and
Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic …

Titan's climate patterns and surface methane distribution due to the coupling of land hydrology and atmosphere

SP Faulk, JM Lora, JL Mitchell, PCD Milly - Nature Astronomy, 2020 - nature.com
Planetary surfaces beyond Earth's are impacted by surface hydrology, and exhibit fluvial and
lacustrine features. Titan in particular harbours a rich hydroclimate replete with valley …

A model intercomparison of Titan's climate and low-latitude environment

JM Lora, T Tokano, JV d'Ollone, S Lebonnois… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
Cassini-Huygens provided a wealth of data with which to constrain numerical models of
Titan. Such models have been employed over the last decade to investigate various aspects …

Deep and methane-rich lakes on Titan

M Mastrogiuseppe, V Poggiali, AG Hayes, JI Lunine… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts liquid hydrocarbon lakes and seas on its surface. During
the last close encounter with Titan (22 April 2017), the Cassini spacecraft used its RADAR …

The insulating effect of methane clathrate crust on Titan's thermal evolution

K Kalousová, C Sotin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Saturn's largest moon Titan is unique for its dense, methane‐rich atmosphere, with ongoing
complex organics chemistry, and the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on its frigid surface. Titan …