Impacts into icy bodies often generate near‐surface melt chambers and thermal
perturbations that soften the ice. We explore the post‐impact evolution of non‐penetrating …

Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus appear to satisfy three key criteria for life: presence of
liquid water, nutrient availability, and metabolic energy sources. Consequently, these ocean …

Titan has an organic-rich atmosphere and surface with a subsurface liquid water ocean that
may represent a habitable environment. In this work, we determined the amount of organic …

Selk crater is an∼ 80 km diameter impact crater on the Saturnian icy satellite Titan. Melt
pools associated with impact craters like Selk provide environments where liquid water and …

Evidence for the beneficial role of impacts in the creation of urable or habitable
environments on Earth prompts the question of whether meteorite impacts could play a …

Abstract New Horizons showed that Pluto exhibits a wide range of geologic groups, with
much of the surface modified by volatile ice processes. Impact craters are a valuable tool to …

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most interesting objects of our Solar System.
Among other things, Titan possesses a dense atmosphere that harbours a complex organic …

The habitability of Earth and other ocean worlds in our Solar System is partly dependent on
the flow of ice masses on their surfaces. Climate-induced acceleration of glaciers and ice …

Icy worlds have attracted a lot of attention from planetary scientists over the last century
because they exhibit an array geophysical and chemical processes that both contrast and …

This dissertation constitutes a study of the possible presence of trace hydrocarbons, namely
n-butane (n-C4H10) and trans-2-butene (trans-2-C4H8) in Titan's atmosphere. These …