P045
Titan: Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Space Environment and their Interactions
Session ID#: 250591
Session Description:
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among the other moons in the solar system. It possesses a thick atmosphere composed of several hydrocarbon species and is home to some of the most complex organic chemistry known. The atmosphere in many ways is analogous to Earth's with methane forming clouds, rain and surface lakes. One of the major objectives of the Cassini mission was to study Titan's atmosphere and its interaction with the space environment. New discoveries and insights continue to be made 8 years after the end of the Cassini mission. This session brings together researchers studying Titan's atmosphere, ionosphere and space environment to present their latest results. Presentations highlighting data analysis, theory, modeling, and any combination thereof that furthers our understanding of the various regions of Titan and the interactions between them are welcome.
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Index Terms:
0343 Planetary atmospheres [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Matthew O. Fillingim, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Conveners: Stephen A Ledvina, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Jared Bell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Niklas J. T. Edberg, Swedish Inst. of Space Phys., Uppsala, Sweden
Student/Early Career Convener: Konstantin Kim, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Cross Section Measurements of Toluene (C7H8) with FTIR for Titan’s stratosphere (1870578)
Koelle Rahman, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Karine Le Bris, California State University Los Angeles, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Los Angeles, United States, Deacon Nemchick, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Keeyoon Sung, Jet Propulsion Lab./CalTech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Currents in Titan's Ionosphere (1882202)
Matthew O. Fillingim1, Stephen A Ledvina2, Niklas J. T. Edberg3 and Konstantin Kim3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Negative Ions at Titan: The Near-Terminator Density Depression (Invited) (1908372)
Anne Wellbrock1, Andrew J Coates2, Geraint H Jones3, Oleg Shebanits4, Erik Vigren4, Panayotis Lavvas5 and Veronique Vuitton6, (1)University College London (UCL), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), London, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (3)European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)Universite de Reims, Reims, France, (6)Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, Grenoble, France
Titan's Interaction with its Variable Plasma Environment (1940684)
Stephen A Ledvina, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Stephen H Brecht, Bay Area Research Corp, Orinda, CA, United States and Matthew O. Fillingim, University of California, Berkeley, United States
The induced magnetosphere of Titan (Invited) (1957079)
Cesar Bertucci, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Physics Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Conicet - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio (IAFE), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Measurement Needs and Gaps in UV Cross Sections for Planetary Atmosphere Modeling (1969314)
Emmie Aufderheide, Southeastern Universities Research Association, Washington, DC, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Benjamin Benne, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Talence, France
