Planetary caves: A solar system view of processes and products

JJ Wynne, JE Mylroie, TN Titus… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first solar system wide compendium of speleogenic processes and products.
An examination of 15 solar system bodies revealed that six cave‐forming processes occur …

Potential caves: Inventory of subsurface access points on the surface of Titan

MJ Malaska, A Schoenfeld, JJ Wynne… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We propose that cycling hydrocarbon rains on Saturn's moon Titan are likely to create
subsurface conduits through dissolution geology of the extensive organic and largely …

Detailed chemical composition analysis of the Soi crater region on Titan

A Solomonidou, MJ Malaska, RMC Lopes, A Coustenis… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
The Soi crater region (0° to 60° N, 180° W to− 110° W), which includes the well-preserved
Soi crater in its center, spans a region from Titan's aeolian-dominated equatorial regions to …

Formation of the Siberian Yamal gas emission crater via accumulation and explosive release of gas within permafrost

LR Schurmeier, GE Brouwer… - Permafrost and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic landscape has experienced many dramatic forms of change due to anthropogenic
warming. Large crater‐like forms surrounded by fragmented blocks scattered outward to …

Composition, Roughness, and Topography from Radar Backscatter at Selk Crater, the Dragonfly Landing Site

LE Bonnefoy, A Lucas, AG Hayes… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Selk crater region is the future landing site of NASA's Dragonfly mission to Titan. The
region was imaged by the Cassini RADAR at incidence angles from 5 to 72 and at various …

The history and processes of Titan's equator from the geospatial-topology of spectrally distinct units

N Kutsop, AG Hayes, C Sotin, JI Lunine, SPD Birch… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
We use hyperspectral-imaging observations from the Visual and Infrared Mapping
Spectrometer (VIMS) to identify and explain processes of Titan's equator through the …

Deformation characteristics of solid-state benzene as a step towards understanding planetary geology

W Zhang, X Zhang, BW Edwards, L Zhong… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Small organic molecules, like ethane and benzene, are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and
surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan, forming plains, dunes, canyons, and other surface …

Geomorphological map of the Soi crater region on Titan

AM Schoenfeld, A Solomonidou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We mapped the Soi crater region at 1: 800,000 scale and produced a geomorphological
map using methodology presented by Malaska, Lopes, Williams, et al.(2016), https://doi …

Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration

EF Klonicki-Ference, MJ Malaska, MP Panning… - Handbook of Space …, 2023 - Springer
NASA's “big questions” that currently motivate planetary exploration include how the
universe works, how our solar system evolved, what characteristics lead to life, and whether …

[图书][B] The Spectrophotometric Properties of Icy Worlds

NWS Kutsop - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Icy worlds are the moons and small planets of the solar system which are primarily
composed of volatile material, such as water, ammonia, and methane. They are geologically …