P13D:
Titan at the End of Cassini-Huygens II Posters

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Session ID#: 24909

Session Description:
During the 13 years of the Cassini-Huygens mission, the two spacecraft have returned a wealth of scientific data that have revolutionized our understanding of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. During 127 targeted encounters, and numerous more distant flybys, the 18 instruments have revealed Titan as a complex, Earth-like world, with arenas of lakes and seas, vast equatorial dune fields, river channels, and meteorology with huge rainstorms. More recently, we have learned that Titan has an interior water ocean that may far eclipse the volume of water in the Earth's oceans. In parallel with the mission results, new numerical models of chemistry and climate, laboratory measurements and simulations, have greatly extended our understanding of Titan’s origin, evolution, and present day processes. This session welcomes topical new research on Titan, from Cassini-Huygens and beyond to include laboratory work, modeling and observations of all types, showing our revised understanding of this complex two-ocean world.
Primary Convener:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Joe H Westlake, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Matthew Hedman, Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, United States and Christophe Sotin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Chairs:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Christophe Sotin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joe H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, United States
Index Terms:

5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Seasonal Evolution of the North and South Polar Vortex on Titan From 2004 to 2017 as Seen by Cassini/VIMS (208555)
Stephane Le Mouelic, CNRS, Nantes Université, Université d'Angers, Le Mans Université, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes, France, Rozenn Robidel, 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, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jason Wayne Barnes, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Robert Hamilton Brown, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Bonnie J Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kevin H Baines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Roger Nelson Clark, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States and Phil d Nicholson, Cornell University, Dept. of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States
Implications on the composition of Titan’s mid-latitude surface region from Cassini/VIMS data. (210123)
Anezina Solomonidou1, Athena Coustenis2, Rosaly M C Lopes3, Michael Malaska4, Sebastien Rodriguez5, Pierre Drossart6, Charles Elachi7, Bernard Schmitt8, Sylvain Philippe9, Michael A Janssen10, Mathieu Hirtzig11, Stephen D Wall12, Kenneth J Lawrence12, Nicolas Altobelli13, Emmanuel Bratsolis14, Jani Radebaugh15, Katrin Stephan16, Robert C. Brown17, Alice Anne Le Gall18, Stephane Le Mouelic19, A. Anthony Bloom20, Edward Villanueva12, Olivier G Witasse21, Christos Matsoukas22 and Ashley Schoenfeld23, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, (3)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (6)LESIA Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France, (7)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble (LPG), Grenoble, France, (9)Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Grenoble, France, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Fondation “La main à la pâte”, Montrouge, France, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, (14)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece, (15)Brigham Young University, Department of Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (16)DLR - German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, (17)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (18)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (19)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (20)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (21)European Space Agency, ESTEC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (22)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (23)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Experimental simulations of ethylene evaporites on Titan (213124)
Ellen Czaplinski, Honeybee Robotics, Pasadena, United States, Kendra Farnsworth, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Sandeep Singh, Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States and Vincent F Chevrier, University of Arkansas, Department of Geosciences, Fayetteville, United States
An Experimental Investigation of Liquid Hydrocarbons on the Surface of Titan: Nitrogen Dissolution and the presence of Nitrogen Bubbles. (221035)
Kendra Farnsworth1, Zachary McMahon2, Dustin Laxton2, Sandeep Singh3, Adrienn Luspay-Kuti4, Jason M Soderblom5 and Vincent F Chevrier6, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (2)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (3)Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (6)University of Arkansas, Department of Geosciences, Fayetteville, United States
Direct Measurements of Surface Energy, Elastic Modulus and Interparticle Forces of Titan Aerosol Analog (‘Tholin’) Using Atomic Force Microscopy (221907)
Xinting Yu1, Sarah M Horst1, Chao He2, Patricia McGuiggan3 and Nathan Thomas Bridges4, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Geomorphological Map of the South Belet Region of Titan: An Exploration of Mid-Latitude-to-Pole Transition Zones (225320)
Ashley Schoenfeld, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Anezina Solomonidou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and The Cassini RADAR Science Team
Are Titan’s radial Labyrinth terrains surface expressions of large laccoliths? (227212)
Lauren Schurmeier, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Andrew J Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Jani Radebaugh, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
Producing Titan ionospheric electron density profiles from Cassini radio occultation data (240076)
Paul A. Dalba, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States and Paul Withers, Boston University, Boston, United States
Complete Mapping of Titan's South Polar Regions (252493)
Tiffany Verlander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Rosaly M C Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Ashley Schoenfeld, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Samuel Birch, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and David A Williams, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Titan’s dunes revealed by the delay/Doppler processing of the Cassini radar altimeter data (275981)
Valerio Poggiali1, Marco Mastrogiuseppe2, Matthew Hedman3, Roberto Seu2, Lea Bonnefoy4, Joseph Mullen1 and Jonathan I Lunine1, (1)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, (3)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, United States, (4)LESIA-LATMOS, Paris, France
Liquid Elevations and Topographic Constraints of Titan's Lacustrine Basins at the end of Cassini: Hydrology and Formation (287445)
Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Samuel Birch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Paul Corlies, Cornell, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States, Valerio Poggiali, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Alan D Howard, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Randolph L Kirk, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States, Marco Mastrogiuseppe, Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Jeffrey M Moore, NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Karl L Mitchell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Cloudy with a Chance of Ice: The Stratification of Titan’s Vernal Ponds and Formation of Ethane Ice (290174)
Jordan Kenneth Steckloff, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jason M Soderblom, MIT, Cambridge, United States
Multi-wavelength search for complex molecules in Titan’s Atmosphere (293219)
Conor A Nixon1, Martin Cordiner2, Thomas K Greathouse3, Matthew Richter4, Zbigniew Kisiel5, Patrick GJ Irwin6, Nicholas A Teanby7, Yi-Jehng Kuan8 and Steven B Charnley2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (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 Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (8)National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

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