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 …

Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields

T Bartels-Rausch, V Bergeron, JHE Cartwright… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
From the frontiers of research on ice dynamics in its broadest sense, this review surveys the
structures of ice, the patterns or morphologies it may assume, and the physical and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database

IE Gordon, LS Rothman, RJ Hargreaves… - Journal of quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
The HITRAN database is a compilation of molecular spectroscopic parameters. It was
established in the early 1970s and is used by various computer codes to predict and …

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 …

Cassini finds molecular hydrogen in the Enceladus plume: evidence for hydrothermal processes

JH Waite, CR Glein, RS Perryman, BD Teolis… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Saturn's moon Enceladus has an ice-covered ocean; a plume of material erupts from cracks
in the ice. The plume contains chemical signatures of water-rock interaction between the …

Simulating the density of organic species in the atmosphere of Titan with a coupled ion-neutral photochemical model

V Vuitton, RV Yelle, SJ Klippenstein, SM Hörst… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a one-dimensional coupled ion-neutral photochemical kinetics and diffusion
model to study the atmospheric composition of Titan in light of new theoretical kinetics …

MASPEX-Europa: the Europa Clipper neutral gas mass spectrometer investigation

JH Waite Jr, JL Burch, TG Brockwell, DT Young… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) is a high-mass-
resolution, high-sensitivity, multi-bounce time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MBTOF) capable …

Nitrogen isotope variations in the Solar System

E Füri, B Marty - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
The relative proportion of the two isotopes of nitrogen, 14N and 15N, varies dramatically
across the Solar System, despite little variation on Earth. NASA's Genesis mission directly …

Titan tholins: simulating Titan organic chemistry in the Cassini-Huygens era

ML Cable, SM Hörst, R Hodyss… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Titan is the gem of the Saturnian system, an icy world laden with organics and shrouded in
an auburn haze. Due in large part to the discoveries of the Cassini-Huygens mission to the …

Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth's early biosphere

P Barth, EE Stüeken, C Helling, L Rossmanith… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bioavailable nitrogen is thought to be a requirement for the origin and sustenance of life.
Before the onset of biological nitrogen fixation, abiotic pathways to fix atmospheric N2 must …