P12B:
Titan at the End of Cassini-Huygens I
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Session ID#: 32375
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 Matthew Hedman, Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, United States
OSPA Liaison: Joe H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Darci S Snowden, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States; Central Washington University, Department of Physics, Ellensburg, WA, United States
Athena Coustenis1, Donald E Jennings2, Richard K Achterberg2, Conor A Nixon3, Georgios Bampasidis4, Valeria Cottini5, F Michael Flasar2 and Panayotis Lavvas6, (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)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Physics, Athens, Greece, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (6)Universite de Reims, Reims, France
Elizabeth P Turtle1, Jason Perry2, John Barbara3, Anthony D Del Genio3, Robert A West4 and McEwen Alfred5, (1)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Christophe Sotin1, Caitlin A Griffith2, Ryleigh Fitzpatrick2, Kenneth J Lawrence3 and The Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Science Implementation Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Sebastien Rodriguez1, Thomas Cornet2, Luca Maltagliati3, Thomas Appéré3, Stephane Le Mouelic4, Christophe Sotin5, Jason Wayne Barnes6 and Robert Hamilton Brown7, (1)Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (2)CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France, (3)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (4)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (7)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Sean Faulk, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Juan Manuel Lora, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Jonathan Mitchell, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Seulgi Moon, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Jani Radebaugh1, Robert E Lewis2, Bradley Wade Bishop3, Eric H Christiansen4, Laura Kerber5, Sebastien Rodriguez6, Clement Narteau7, Alice Anne Le Gall8, Antoine Lucas6, Michael Malaska9 and The Cassini RADAR Team, (1)Brigham Young University, Department of Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Provo, United States, (3)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (4)Brigham Young University, Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (7)IPGP, Paris, France, (8)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Marco Mastrogiuseppe1, Valerio Poggiali2, Matthew Hedman3, Jonathan I Lunine2, Roberto Seu1, Ralph D Lorenz4, Giuseppe Mitri5, Karl L Mitchell6, Michael A Janssen6, Domenico Casarano7, Caludia Notarnicola8, Alice Anne Le Gall9 and Cassini RADAR team, (1)Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, (2)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)CNR-IRPI National Research Council, Bari, Italy, (8)EUR.AC, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, (9)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France
