P22A:
The Rite of Spring: The Changing Seasons on Titan I

Session ID#: 2347

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Scott G Edgington, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Robert M. Nelson, Planetary Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Scott G Edgington, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Robert M. Nelson, Planetary Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States; Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Unveiling Titan’s Mid-Latitude Surface Regions (Invited) (3491)
Anezina Solomonidou1,2, Athena Coustenis3, Rosaly M C Lopes1, Sebastien Rodriguez4, Mathieu Hirtzig2,5, Katrin Stephan6, Christophe Sotin7, Pierre Drossart2, Stephane Le Mouelic8, Kenneth J Lawrence1, Michael J Malaska1, Ralf Jaumann6, Robert Hamilton Brown9 and Emmanuel Bratsolis10, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (3)LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, (4)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (5)Fondation “La main à la pâte”, Montrouge, France, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (9)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
Monitoring the Seasonal Evolution of the North and South Polar Vortex on Titan during 10 Years with Cassini/Vims (9290)
Stephane Le Mouelic, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Batiste Rousseau, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS), Rome, Italy, Sebastien Rodriguez, AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, Thomas Cornet, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France, Christophe Sotin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Jason Wayne Barnes, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Robert Hamilton Brown, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Bonnie J Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Kevin H Baines, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Roger Nelson Clark, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Philip D Nicholson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Evolution of Titan's Seas and Lakes during Northern Spring (Invited) (3209)
Christophe Sotin1, Kenneth J Lawrence2, Stephane Le Mouelic3, Shannon MacKenzie4, Jason Wayne Barnes5, Robert Hamilton Brown6, Thomas Cornet7, Sebastien Rodriguez8, Kevin H Baines9, Bonnie J Buratti9, Roger Nelson Clark10, Phil d Nicholson11 and Jason M Soderblom12, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (4)University of Idaho, Moscow, United States, (5)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (8)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (10)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (11)Cornell University, Dept. of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States, (12)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
First Cassini Radio Science Bistatic Scattering Observation of Titan's Northern Seas (Invited) (3182)
Essam A Marouf1, Arvydas J Kliore2, Nicole J Rappaport3, Richard G French4, Paul J Schinder5, Aseel Anabtawi2, Kwok K Wong6, John W Armstrong2, Sami W Asmar2, F Michael Flasar7, Luciano Iess8, Colleen McGhee-French9, Andrew F Nagy10, Paolo Tortora11, Elias Barbinis2, Dustin Buccino2 and Daniel S Kahan12, (1)San Jose State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, San Jose, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Formerly with JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Wellesley College, Department of Astronomy, Wellesley, MA, United States, (5)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, (9)Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States, (10)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)Universita di Bologna, DIEM - II Faculty of Engineering, FORLI, I- 47121, Italy, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Titan’s Surface at 2.2-Cm Wavelength: Results and Interpretations through the First Ten Years of Observation By Cassini (11634)
Michael A Janssen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael J Malaska, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Titan’s Magic Island: Transient features in a Titan sea (Invited) (18000)
Jason Daniel Hofgartner1, Alexander G Hayes Jr2, Jonathan I Lunine3, Howard A Zebker4, Bryan W Stiles5, Christophe Sotin6, Jason Wayne Barnes7, Elizabeth P Turtle8, Kevin H Baines5, Robert Hamilton Brown9, Bonnie J Buratti10, Roger Nelson Clark11, Pierre Encrenaz12, Randolph L Kirk13, Alice Anne Le Gall14, Rosaly M C Lopes15, Ralph D Lorenz16, Michael J Malaska17, Karl L Mitchell18, Philip D Nicholson19, Philippe Paillou20, Jani Radebaugh21, Stephen D Wall15 and Charles A Wood22, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (3)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (8)JHU Applied Physics Lab., Laurel, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (12)Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France, (13)USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (14)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (15)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, 1910 UNIVERSITY DR, Laurel, United States, (17)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (18)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (19)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (20)University of Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, (21)Brigham Young University, Department of Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (22)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Kraken Mare bathymetry and composition from Cassini RADAR (15392)
Marco Mastrogiuseppe1,2, Alexander G Hayes Jr3, Alice Anne Le Gall4, Domenico Casarano5, Jason Daniel Hofgartner6, Ralph D Lorenz7, Jonathan I Lunine8, Caludia Notarnicola9, Valerio Poggiali10, Ozgur Karatekin11, Roberto Seu2 and Cassini RADAR Science Team, (1)Link Campus University, Rome, Italy, (2)Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, (3)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (4)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (5)CNR-IRPI National Research Council, Bari, Italy, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, 1910 UNIVERSITY DR, Laurel, United States, (8)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (9)eurac, Bolzano, Italy, (10)Università La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Rome, Italy, (11)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Modeling and Observing the Role of Wind-Waves in Lake-Climate Interactions on Titan using the T104 Flyby of Kraken Mare (20788)
Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Ralph D Lorenz, PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, 1910 UNIVERSITY DR, Laurel, United States, Howard A Zebker, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Mark A Donelan, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Ozgur Karatekin, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Marco Mastrogiuseppe, Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, Jason Daniel Hofgartner, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Pierre Encrenaz, Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France, Valerio Poggiali, Università La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Rome, Italy and Cassini RADAR Team
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