Imaging of Titan from the Cassini spacecraft

CC Porco, E Baker, J Barbara, K Beurle, A Brahic… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only satellite in the Solar System with a substantial
atmosphere. The atmosphere is poorly understood and obscures the surface, leading to …

The characterisation of Titan's atmospheric physical properties by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI)

M Fulchignoni, F Ferri, F Angrilli, A Bar-Nun… - Space Science …, 2002 - Springer
Abstract The Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI) is a multi-sensor package
which has been designed to measure the physical quantities characterising the atmosphere …

Charge-ordered ferromagnetic phase in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3

JC Loudon, ND Mathur, PA Midgley - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Mixed-valent manganites are noted for their unusual magnetic, electronic and structural
phase transitions. For example, the La1-x Ca x MnO3 phase diagram shows that below …

Hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of nitro-, nitroso-, azo-, azoxy-and other nitrogen-containing compounds on palladium

F Figueras, B Coq - Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2001 - Elsevier
The formation of nitroso-, azo-and azoxy-aromatics depends of a relatively complex scheme
involving consecutive reactions. However, all different products can be produced in good …

Direct detection of variable tropospheric clouds near Titan's south pole

ME Brown, AH Bouchez, CA Griffith - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Atmospheric conditions on Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, allow the possibility that it could
possess a methane condensation and precipitation cycle with many similarities to Earth's …

Methane drizzle on Titan

T Tokano, CP McKay, FM Neubauer, SK Atreya, F Ferri… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Titan shows landscapes with fluvial features suggestive of hydrology based
on liquid methane. Recent efforts in understanding Titan's methane hydrological cycle have …

Common 0.1 bar tropopause in thick atmospheres set by pressure-dependent infrared transparency

TD Robinson, DC Catling - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
A minimum atmospheric temperature, or tropopause, occurs at a pressure of around 0.1 bar
in the atmospheres of Earth, Titan, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, despite great …

The evolution of Titan's mid-latitude clouds

CA Griffith, P Penteado, K Baines, P Drossart, J Barnes… - science, 2005 - science.org
Spectra from Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer reveal that the horizontal
structure, height, and optical depth of Titan's clouds are highly dynamic. Vigorous cloud …

Gaseous abundances and methane supersaturation in Titan's troposphere

RE Samuelson, NR Nath, A Borysow - Planetary and Space Science, 1997 - Elsevier
Various properties of Titan's troposphere are inferred from an analysis of Voyager 1 infrared
spectrometer (IRIS) data between 200 and 600 cm− 1. Two homogeneous spectral …

Detection of daily clouds on Titan

CA Griffith, JL Hall, TR Geballe - Science, 2000 - science.org
We have discovered frequent variations in the near-infrared spectrum of Titan, Saturn's
largest moon, which are indicative of the daily presence of sparse clouds covering less than …