An endogenic origin for Titan's rampart craters: Assessment of explosion mechanisms

GE Brouwer, LR Schurmeier… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rampart craters are a class of lakes or depressions in Titan's north polar region that have
morphological attributes suggestive of an explosive origin. Two previous studies have …

Estimating the 3D structure of the Enceladus ice shell from Flexural and Crary waves using seismic simulations

AG Marusiak, S Tharimena, MP Panning… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
A seismic investigation on Saturn's moon Enceladus could determine the thickness of the ice
shell, along with variations from the mean thickness, by recovering phase and group …

A comprehensive theory for 1-D (an) elastic medium deformation due to plane-wave fluid pressure perturbation

Z Xu, P Lognonné - Geophysical Journal International, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Atmospheric and oceanic pressure perturbations deform the ground surface and the
seafloor, respectively. This mechanical deformation, where the fluid perturbations propagate …

Long period seismology on Titan in the presence of a methane clathrate lid

AS Bryant, MP Panning… - Earth and Space …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Previous 1‐D spherically symmetric seismic modeling studies have shown that in the
presence of a clathrate lid on Titan significant thermal profile differences result, particularly …

Rapid Impact Crater Relaxation Caused by an Insulating Methane Clathrate Crust on Titan

LR Schurmeier, GE Brouwer, JP Kay… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Titan's impact craters are hundreds of meters shallower than expected, compared to similar-
sized craters on Ganymede. Only 90 crater candidates have been identified, the majority of …

Open Questions and Future Directions in Titan Science

CA Nixon, N Carrasco, C Sotin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00971, 2025 - arxiv.org
In this chapter we attempt to distill the very large number of possible future inquiries of Titan
into a relatively concise list of twenty high level questions-each of which of would …

Habitability of Saturn's Moon Titan for Acetylenotrophy: Laboratory Culturing and Energetics As Tools for the Search for Life

MD Yanez - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The search for life beyond Earth has been closely tied to the presence of liquid water. Often,
astrobiologists focus on three key criteria for life: liquid water, nutrient availability, and …