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Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

Planetary Science Journal, ISSN: 2632-3338, Vol: 2, Issue: 3
2021
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  • 62
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  • Citations
    33
    • Citation Indexes
      33
  • Captures
    62
  • Mentions
    3
    • Blog Mentions
      2
      • 2
    • References
      1
      • 1

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Article Description

Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic-rich ocean world offering unparalleled opportunities to explore prebiotic chemistry. And while Cassini-Huygens revolutionized our understanding of each of the three "layers" of Titan-the atmosphere, the surface, and the interior-we are only beginning to hypothesize how these realms interact. In this paper, we summarize the current state of Titan knowledge and discuss how future exploration of Titan would address some of the next decade's most compelling planetary science questions. We also demonstrate why exploring Titan, both with and beyond the Dragonfly New Frontiers mission, is a necessary and complementary component of an Ocean Worlds Program that seeks to understand whether habitable environments exist elsewhere in our solar system.

Bibliographic Details

Shannon M. MacKenzie; Samuel P. D. Birch; Sarah Hörst; Christophe Sotin; Erika Barth; Juan M. Lora; Melissa G. Trainer; Paul Corlies; Michael J. Malaska; Ella Sciamma-O’Brien; Alexander E. Thelen; Elizabeth Turtle; Jani Radebaugh; Jennifer Hanley; Anezina Solomonidou; Claire Newman; Leonardo Regoli; Sébastien Rodriguez; Benôit Seignovert; Alexander G. Hayes; Baptiste Journaux; Jordan Steckloff; Delphine Nna-Mvondo; Thomas Cornet; Maureen Y. Palmer; Rosaly M. C. Lopes; Sandrine Vinatier; Ralph Lorenz; Conor Nixon; Ellen Czaplinski; Jason W. Barnes; Ed Sittler; Andrew Coates

American Astronomical Society

Physics and Astronomy; Earth and Planetary Sciences

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