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) …

Measuring impact crater depth throughout the solar system

SJ Robbins, WA Watters, JE Chappelow… - … & Planetary Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
One important, almost ubiquitous, tool for understanding the surfaces of solid bodies
throughout the solar system is the study of impact craters. While measuring a distribution of …

Titan's topography and shape at the end of the Cassini mission

P Corlies, AG Hayes, SPD Birch… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the conclusion of the Cassini mission, we present an updated topographic map of Titan,
including all the available altimetry, SARtopo, and stereophotogrammetry topographic data …

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 …

Titan's impact crater population after Cassini

JE Hedgepeth, CD Neish, EP Turtle, BW Stiles, R Kirk… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Titan is Saturn's largest moon and has a dynamic surface with methane rivers carved by an
active hydrological cycle and sand seas shaped by aeolian processes. One way to study the …

Geomorphological map of the Afekan Crater region, Titan: Terrain relationships in the equatorial and mid-latitude regions

MJ Malaska, RMC Lopes, DA Williams, CD Neish… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
We carried out geomorphological mapping in a mid-latitude area surrounding the Afekan
Crater region on Titan. We used Cassini RADAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar mode) data as …

Explorer of Enceladus and Titan (E2T): Investigating ocean worlds' evolution and habitability in the solar system

G Mitri, F Postberg, JM Soderblom, P Wurz… - Planetary and space …, 2018 - Elsevier
Titan, with its organically rich and dynamic atmosphere and geology, and Enceladus, with its
active plume, both harbouring global subsurface oceans, are prime environments in which …

Strategies for detecting biological molecules on Titan

CD Neish, RD Lorenz, EP Turtle, JW Barnes… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Saturn's moon Titan has all the ingredients needed to produce “life as we know it.” When
exposed to liquid water, organic molecules analogous to those found on Titan produce a …