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 …

The lakes and seas of Titan

AG Hayes - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Analogous to Earth's water cycle, Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle supports standing
bodies of liquid and drives processes that result in common morphologic features including …

GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations

JM Lora, JI Lunine, JL Russell - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the
Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral …

A post-Cassini view of Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle

AG Hayes, RD Lorenz, JI Lunine - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The methane-based hydrologic cycle on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an extreme
analogue to Earth's water cycle. Titan is the only planetary body in the Solar System, other …

The climate of Titan

JL Mitchell, JM Lora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, the Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturn system has revolutionized
our understanding of Titan and its climate. Veiled in a thick organic haze, Titan's visible …

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 …

Titan as revealed by the Cassini radar

RMC Lopes, SD Wall, C Elachi, SPD Birch… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft's arrival in July 2004. We
review the major scientific advances made by Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) …

Fluvial erosion as a mechanism for crater modification on Titan

CD Neish, JL Molaro, JM Lora, AD Howard, RL Kirk… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
There are few identifiable impact craters on Titan, especially in the polar regions. One
explanation for this observation is that the craters are being destroyed through fluvial …

Geomorphologic mapping of titan's polar terrains: Constraining surface processes and landscape evolution

SPD Birch, AG Hayes, WE Dietrich, AD Howard… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a geomorphologic map of Titan's polar terrains. The map was generated from a
combination of Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Imaging Science Subsystem …