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 …

Fundamental science achieved with a single probe in each giant planet atmosphere

KE Mandt, AA Simon, O Mousis, DH Atkinson… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Recent observations of Jupiter's atmosphere showing unexpected depletion of ammonia
below the ammonia cloud-forming region has brought up the question of whether a single …

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 …

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 …

Composition of Titan's lower atmosphere and simple surface volatiles as measured by the Cassini‐Huygens probe gas chromatograph mass spectrometer experiment

HB Niemann, SK Atreya, JE Demick… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Cassini‐Huygens probe gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) determined
the composition of the Titan atmosphere from∼ 140 km altitude to the surface. After landing …

The pH of Enceladus' ocean

CR Glein, JA Baross, JH Waite Jr - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is a geologically active waterworld. The prevailing paradigm is
that there is a subsurface ocean that erupts to the surface, which leads to the formation of a …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

The neutral photochemistry of nitriles, amines and imines in the atmosphere of Titan

JC Loison, E Hébrard, M Dobrijevic, KM Hickson… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The photochemistry of N 2 and CH 4 in the atmosphere of Titan leads to a very rich
chemistry which is not well understood. The aim of our study is to improve our understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Toward RNA life on early Earth: From atmospheric HCN to biomolecule production in warm little ponds

BKD Pearce, K Molaverdikhani, RE Pudritz… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of life on Earth involves the early appearance of an information-containing
molecule such as RNA. The basic building blocks of RNA could have been delivered by …

Chemical interactions between Saturn's atmosphere and its rings

JH Waite Jr, RS Perryman, ME Perry, KE Miller, J Bell… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Past remote observations of Saturn by Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Earth-
based observatories, and the Cassini prime and solstice missions suggested an inflow of …