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 …

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) …

[图书][B] Planetary surface processes

HJ Melosh - 2011 - books.google.com
Planetary Surface Processes is the first advanced textbook to cover the full range of geologic
processes that shape the surfaces of planetary-scale bodies. Using a modern, quantitative …

Is the critical Shields stress for incipient sediment motion dependent on channel‐bed slope?

MP Lamb, WE Dietrich… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Data from laboratory flumes and natural streams show that the critical Shields stress for
initial sediment motion increases with channel slope, which indicates that particles of the …

Rivers, lakes, dunes, and rain: Crustal processes in Titan's methane cycle

JI Lunine, RD Lorenz - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Titan exhibits ample surface and crustal processes including lakes and seas, fluvial erosive
features, possibly subsurface reservoirs of liquid, and rainfall. Together these constitute …

Reconstructing river flows remotely on Earth, Titan, and Mars

SPD Birch, G Parker, P Corlies… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Alluvial rivers are conveyor belts of fluid and sediment that provide a record of upstream
climate and erosion on Earth, Titan, and Mars. However, many of Earth's rivers remain …

Fluvial channels on Titan: initial Cassini RADAR observations

RD Lorenz, RM Lopes, F Paganelli, JI Lunine… - Planetary and Space …, 2008 - Elsevier
Cassini radar images show a variety of fluvial channels on Titan's surface, often several
hundreds of kilometers in length. Some (predominantly at low-and mid-latitude) are radar …

Predicting the drag coefficient and settling velocity of spherical particles

A Terfous, A Hazzab, A Ghenaim - Powder technology, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a relationship for calculating the drag coefficient of a spherical particle.
The results obtained were validated using experimental data, including comparison with …

Inverted fluvial features in the Aeolis/Zephyria Plana region, Mars: Formation mechanism and initial paleodischarge estimates

DM Burr, RME Williams, KD Wendell… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A subset of the sinuous ridges (SRs) in the Aeolis/Zephyria Plana (AZP) region of Mars has
been previously hypothesized to be inverted fluvial features, although the precise induration …

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 …