Titan After Cassini-Huygens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopes, Rosaly M.C.

Contributor:

Elachi, Charle.

Mueller-Wodarg, Ingo.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Titan (Satellite).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2025.

Contents:

Intro

Titan After Cassini-Huygens

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction: Titan, the Earth of the outer solar system

1. Introduction

2. Book structure

3. Titan's bulk properties

4. Titan's regions and nomenclature

Acknowledgments

Chapter 2: History of Titan exploration

1. Prologue

2. The initial steps

3. Joint ESA-NASA study

4. Mission overview

5. Launch

6. Cruise

7. Saturn orbit insertion (SOI)

8. Beginning the tour: Cassini's Prime Mission

9. Huygens probe mission

10. Titan and satellite tour

11. Viewing Saturn's rings edge-on: Equinox Mission (EM)

12. Summer in the northern hemisphere: SM

13. Satisfying planetary protection requirements: Grand finale orbits

14. Epilogue

Appendix

References

Chapter 3: The origin and evolution of Titan

1. Introduction: Key issues in the origin and evolution of Titan

2. Cassini-Huygens and other data sets relevant to origin and evolution

2.1. Atmospheric composition: Molecular and isotopic

2.2. Surface properties

3. Models of the growth of satellites around Saturn

3.1. Context: Growth of Saturn

3.2. Titan's accretion in the Saturn environment

4. Earliest evolution of Titan

4.1. Evolution of a primitive ammonia-water ``magma ́́ocean and crust formation

4.2. Interior differentiation and water-organics-rock interactions

4.3. Conversion of NH3 to N2 by various mechanisms

5. Coupled evolution of the interior and atmosphere of Titan up to the last billion years

5.1. Evolution of Titan's internal ocean and link with its orbit

5.2. Isotopic constraints on the atmosphere evolution

6. The last billion years

6.1. Evidence for and against a standing global methane-ethane ocean in the past

6.2. The resupply of methane over the last billion years: Steady state or episodic?

7. What we seek to learn from Dragonfly and future missions about the origin and evolution of Titan

Chapter 4: Titan orbital and rotational dynamics

2. Observations and dynamical characteristics

3. Short-term evolution

3.1. The orbital motion

3.2. Titan's rotation

4. Long-term evolution

4.1. Evolution and origin of the Titan-Hyperion resonance

4.2. Past resonance crossings with Iapetus

4.3. Migration of Titan and the evolution of Saturn's obliquity

5. Conclusion

Chapter 5: Titan's magnetic and plasma environment

2. Titan internal field and upper atmosphere/exosphere/ionosphere

2.1. Internal magnetic field

2.2. Titan's atmosphere, ionosphere, and exosphere

3. Upstream from Titan

4. Induced magnetosphere through specific cases

5. General trends

6. Ion pickup and escape

7. Numerical simulations

8. Conclusions and outstanding questions

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9780323991629

0323991629

Publisher Number:

40032664593

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