P31C:
Titan: Constraining an Ocean World I Posters

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Session ID#: 12714

Session Description:
The joint NASA/ESA Cassini mission has established Titan as a prime location for investigating the limits of life. Cassini has studied Titan’s interior, seasonal changes on its surface and atmosphere, and the atmosphere’s interaction with an energetic magnetosphere. Cassini finds surface-atmosphere interactions producing erosional features similar to Earth’s, including dunes, mountains, rivers, alluvial deposits, and features suggesting recent cryovolcanism.   There is also evidence for a salty ocean interior and accumulations of liquid hydrocarbons are evident on its surface. The atmosphere’s interaction with the magnetosphere produces a continuous supply of new organic material.   The inclusion of Titan as a target for exploration by missions under NASA’s New Frontiers program highlights broad solar system community interest in this scientifically rich moon.  This session will explore new results that intend to provide a comprehensive and integrated understanding of Titan’s interior, surface, and atmosphere, along with the atmosphere’s interaction with the Saturn’s energetic environment.
Primary Convener:  Robert M. Nelson, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joe H Westlake, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joe H Westlake, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Robert M. Nelson, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6280 Saturnian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Role of 1CH2 Chemistry in Determining Ethane and Benzene Formation in Titan's Atmosphere (149527)
Paul W Seakins, University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom
Titan's gravity: An update (152219)
Daniele Durante1, Luciano Iess1, Paolo Racioppa2, John W Armstrong3, Jonathan I Lunine4, David J Stevenson5 and Paolo Tortora6, (1)Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, (2)Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rome, Italy, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Pasadena, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Universita di Bologna, DIEM - II Faculty of Engineering, FORLI, I- 47121, Italy
Reactivity of Amines with CO2 on the Surface of Titan (159765)
Robert P Hodyss, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sophie Piao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Morgan L Cable, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
TOWARDS MORE REALISTIC SIMULATIONS OF AIR-SEA INTERACTION OVER LAKES ON TITAN (173393)
Scot CR Rafkin and Alejandro Soto, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Phase Diagram of the System Water-Tetrahydrofuran-Ammonia at Titan’s Crust Conditions (178997)
Victoria Munoz Iglesias1, Tuan Hoang Vu2, Mathieu Choukroun3, Robert P Hodyss1, William D Smythe1 and Christophe Sotin4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Measurements of Low Temperature Rate Coefficients for Reactions of 1CH2 and the Implications for Titan's Atmosphere (193293)
Kevin Mark Douglas1, Mark A Blitz2, Wuhu Feng3, Dwayne E Heard3, John M C Plane1, Eloise Slater3 and Paul W Seakins3, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom
Abundance and Temperature Variations in Titan’s Atmosphere as Revealed by ALMA (194937)
Alexander E Thelen1, Conor A Nixon2, Nancy Chanover3, Edward Mischel Molter4, Martin Cordiner5, Joseph Serigano IV6, Patrick GJ Irwin7, Steven B Charnley5 and Nicholas A Teanby8, (1)USRA / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom, (8)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Kinetics of Ethane Clathrate Hydrate Formation under Titan-Like Conditions (194951)
Tuan Hoang Vu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Victoria Munoz Iglesias, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Mathieu Choukroun, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Helen Elizabeth Maynard-Casely, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, NSW, Australia
Titan Lifting Entry & Atmospheric Flight (T-LEAF) Science Mission (196251)
Greg Lee1, Bhaswar Sen2, Floyd Ross3 and Daniel Sokol1, (1)Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, CA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA, United States

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