P31C:
Titan's Enigmatic Atmosphere and Ionosphere Posters

Session ID#: 3235

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Joe H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, United States and Sarah M Horst, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Joe H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, United States
Co-Convener:  Sarah M Horst, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5435 Ionospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The global precipitation of magnetospheric electrons into Titan’s upper atmosphere (Invited) (3476)
Darci S Snowden, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States and Roger V Yelle, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States
 
Global Modeling of the Seasonal and Solar Cycle Trends in Titan’s Methane (Invited) (6443)
Jared Micheal Bell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 675, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joe H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, United States, Jack H Waite, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States and Rebecca Perryman, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
Cooked Volatiles and the Origin of Titan’s Atmosphere: Evidence of Deep Hydrothermal Activity? (8049)
Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
Ion Cyclotron Waves at Titan (8135)
Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Misa Cowee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Fritz M Neubauer, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Characterization of the Chemical Composition of TITAN’S Aerosols Analogues with a Systematic Pyrolysis-GCMS Analysis Approach (10954)
Marietta Morisson, LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France, Cyril Szopa, Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, Nathalie Carrasco, Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, Arnaud Buch, LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry, France and Thomas Gautier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Titan’s Topside Ionospheric Composition: Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Ion Mass spectrometer Measurements (18468)
Edward C Sittler Jr1, Richard E Hartle1, Ashraf Ali2, John F Cooper3, Alexander S Lipatov4, David G Simpson5, Menelaos Sarantos4 and Dennis J Chornay6, (1)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
The THS Experiment: Ex Situ Analyses of Titan’s Aerosol Analogs Produced at Low Temperature (200K) (19291)
Ella M Sciamma-O'Brien1,2, Kathleen T Upton3, Jesse L Beauchamp3 and Farid Salama1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Synthesis of N-substituted Cyclic Hydrocarbons, such as Pyrimidine, in The Ionosphere of Titan (19538)
Partha P Bera, NASA - Ames Research Center, Mountain View, United States, Roberto Peverati, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Martin Head-Gordon, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Timothy J Lee, NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Energy and Momentum Transfer from Saturn's Magnetosphere to Titan's Atmosphere (20579)
Stephen A Ledvina, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Stephen H Brecht, Bay Area Research Corp, Orinda, CA, United States and Jared Micheal Bell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 675, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Probing Titan’s Atmosphere with ALMA (23595)
Joseph Serigano IV1, Conor A Nixon2, Martin Cordiner3, Steven B Charnley3, Nicholas A Teanby4, Maureen Yukiko Palmer5, Stefanie N Milam6, Geronimo Villanueva3, Lucas Paganini1, Michael J Mumma1, Richard K Achterberg1, Yi-Jehng Kuan7 and Zbigniew Kisiel8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (7)National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, (8)Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
 
An Empirical Approach to Modeling Ion Production Rates in Titan’s Nightside Ionosphere (24887)
Matthew S Richard1,2, Thomas Cravens3, Calvin Wylie2, Daniel Webb2, Quentin Chediak2, Kathleen Mandt4, Jack H Waite5, Abigail M Rymer6, Cesar Bertucci7 and Anne Wellbrock8, (1)Benedictine College, Physics and Astronomy, Atchison, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, United States, (5)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Physics Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (8)University College London (UCL), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), London, United Kingdom
 
Influence of orbital precession on the polar methane accumulation on Titan (28863)
Junjun Liu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Tapio Schneider, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Temperature effect on the far infrared absorption features of aromatic-based Titan aerosol analogs (30045)
Thomas Gautier1,2, Melissa G Trainer3, Mark J Loeffler1, Joshua Sebree4 and Carrie M Anderson1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Northern Iowa, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Cedar Falls, United States
 
Abundances of C3Hx Hydrocarbons in Titan’s Stratosphere from Cassini CIRS (31080)
Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Donald E Jennings, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bruno Bezard, Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, Sandrine Vinatier, Paris Observatory/LEISA, Meudon, France, Nicholas A Teanby, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Keeyoon Sung, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Todd M Ansty, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Patrick GJ Irwin, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom, Nicolas Gorius, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Valeria Cottini, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Athena Coustenis, LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France and F Michael Flasar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
See more of: Planetary Sciences