P33F:
Titan: Constraining an Ocean World II
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Session ID#: 15005
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: Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Howard A Zebker, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Ying Qi Wong, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Christophe Sotin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Klara Kalousova, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic
Anezina Solomonidou1, Rosaly M C Lopes1, Athena Coustenis2, Michael Malaska3, Sebastien Rodriguez4, Pierre Drossart5, Michael A Janssen6, Alice Anne Le Gall7, Bernard Schmitt8, Mathieu Hirtzig9, Luca Maltagliati10, Frank Sohl11, Katrin Stephan12, Ralf Jaumann11, Robert Hamilton Brown13, Edward Villanueva1, Christos Matsoukas14 and Emmanuel Bratsolis15, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (5)LESIA Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (8)Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CNES, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, France, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Grenoble, France, (9)Fondation “La main à la pâte”, Montrouge, France, (10)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (11)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (12)German Aerospace Center, Berlin, Germany, (13)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (14)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (15)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
Athena Coustenis1, Donald E Jennings2, Richard K Achterberg2, Panayotis Lavvas3, Conor A Nixon4, Georgios Bampasidis5, Sandrine Vinatier6, Gordon L Bjoraker2 and F Michael Flasar2, (1)LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Reims, Reims, France, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Physics, Athens, Greece, (6)Paris Observatory/LEISA, Meudon, France
Elizabeth P Turtle1, Jason Wayne Barnes2, Jason Perry3, John Barbara4, Matthew Hedman5, Paul Corlies6, John Kelland7, Robert A West8, Anthony D Del Genio4, Jason M Soderblom9, Alfred S McEwen10 and Christophe Sotin11, (1)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (5)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, United States, (6)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States, (7)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Jason M Soderblom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Mark A Donelan, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, Jason Wayne Barnes, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Ralph D Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Sean Faulk, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Seulgi Moon, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jonathan Mitchell, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Juan Manuel Lora, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Maureen Yukiko Palmer1, Martin Cordiner2, James Lai1, Conor A Nixon3, Steven B Charnley2, Nicholas A Teanby4, Zbigniew Kisiel5, Patrick GJ Irwin6, Edward Mischel Molter7 and Michael J Mumma1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Warsaw, Poland, (6)University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
