P040
Titan: the Exotic and Enigmatic Moon

Session ID#: 79127

Session Description:
Saturn’s giant moon Titan is one of the most mysterious, and yet strangely familiar, realms in the solar system. Possessing a dense atmosphere enriched in organic compounds, its active photochemistry works to produce a panoply of molecules of increasing size and complexity, running the gamut from ethane to haze particles. On the surface, organic dune fields wrap around Titan in an equatorial band, while the poles exhibit lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbon. Methane flows across Titan’s surface in well-organized channel networks that route material from erosional to depositional landscapes. Titan’s methane-based hydrologic cycle is an extreme analogue of Earth’s water cycle. Inside Titan, a liquid water ocean lurks, causing it to flex and deform around its orbital path. This session solicits presentations on all aspects of Titan research, including on-going Cassini dataset analysis, Earth-based observations, modeling, laboratory investigations, and comparison with other bodies.
Index Terms:

5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6207 Comparative planetology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6281 Titan [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Primary Convener:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States and Kathleen Mandt, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Conor A Nixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Analysis of Synthetic Seismograms for Titan and Comparison Moonquakes and Terrestrial Icequakes (491603)
John Owens and Philip J Carpenter, Northern Illinois University, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb, IL, United States
 
Titan's Shell Thickness (493030)
Mikael Beuthe and Attilio Rivoldini, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
 
The raised ramparts around Titan’s northern lakes: Spectral and emissivity analysis (496328)
Anezina Solomonidou1, Alice Anne Le Gall2, Michael Malaska3, Samuel Birch4, Rosaly M C Lopes5, Athena Coustenis6, Sebastien Rodriguez7, Stephen D Wall8, Roger J Michaelides9, Maya Nasr10, Charles Elachi11, Alexander Hayes12, Ashley Schoenfeld13, Christos Matsoukas14, Pierre Drossart15, Michael A Janssen16, Kenneth J Lawrence8, Olivier G Witasse17 and Jani Radebaugh18, (1)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Tracys Landing, MD, United States, (6)LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, (7)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (10)MIT, Massachusetts, United States, (11)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (13)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (15)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (16)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (17)European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (18)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
 
Geomorphological map of the Soi crater region on Titan (497058)
Rosaly M C Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ashley Schoenfeld, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anezina Solomonidou, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, David (Dave) Williams, Arizona State University, Samuel Birch, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France and Jani Radebaugh, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
 
Seasonal Variations of Titan’s Brightness (502413)
Ellen Creecy1, Liming Li2, Xun Jiang1, Conor A Nixon3, Robert A West4 and Matthew E Kenyon5, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Physics Department, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Spatio-Temporal Structure of Titan's Atmosphere from Radio Occultations over the Cassini Mission (508512)
F Michael Flasar1, Paul J Schinder2, Essam A Marouf3, Richard G French4, Elias Barbinis5, Don U Fleischman5, Aseel Anabtawi5 and Richard K Achterberg6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)San Jose State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, San Jose, CA, United States, (4)Wellesley College, Department of Astronomy, Wellesley, MA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States
 
Titan Molecular Minerals: Latest Results on Characterization of a Potential Acetylene-Butane Co-Crystal (513165)
Morgan L Cable1, Tuan Hoang Vu2, Michael Malaska2, Mathieu Choukroun3, Helen Elizabeth Maynard-Casely4 and Robert P Hodyss3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, NSW, Australia
 
Complex Refractive Indices of Titan Aerosol Analogs Formed at Low Temperatures (517113)
Ted L Roush, Ella M Sciamma-O'Brien and Farid Salama, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Titan’s Bistable Climate and the Origin of its Atmospheric Methane (524407)
Alejandro Soto1, Jordan Steckloff2, Jason M Soderblom3, Kendra Farnsworth4, Vincent F Chevrier4, Jennifer Hanley5, William M Grundy5, Jessica Groven6 and Logan Pearce7, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (5)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (6)Washington State University, Pullman, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Strike-slip faulting on Titan? Modeling shear failure conditions due to pore fluid interactions (531410)
Liliane ML Burkhard1, Bridget R Smith-Konter1, Sarah Ann Fagents2, Marissa Cameron3, Geoffrey C Collins4 and Robert T Pappalardo3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States
 
A Cassini VIMS data portal for Titan and Saturn’s icy satellites (534781)
Stephane Le Mouelic, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Benoit Seignovert, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, 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 W Barnes, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Robert Hamilton Brown, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Roger Nelson Clark, USGS, Denver, CO, United States
 
Titan's ionospheric chemistry, fullerenes, oxygen, galactic cosmic rays, the formation of exobiological molecules on and within its surfaces and lakes (553692)
Edward C Sittler Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John F Cooper, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cntr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Steven J. Sturner, University of Maryland Baltimore County, CRESST/NASA GSFC Code 661, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ashraf Ali, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Investigating the Chemical Composition of the CIRS-Observed 160 cm-1 Ice Cloud in Titan’s Stratosphere (555444)
Melissa Ugelow and Carrie M Anderson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Searching for Waves on Titan's Seas with Coastline Measurements and Modeling (556570)
J Taylor Perron1, Rose Palermo2, Andrew D Ashton3, Jason M Soderblom1, Alexander Hayes4 and Samuel Birch4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Channels on Titan: an Examination of Data Effects and a Comparison with Earth Analogs (558034)
Julia W Miller, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Samuel Birch, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, Ashley Schoenfeld, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Rosaly M C Lopes, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael Malaska, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Devon M Burr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Cassini Science Highlights and Legacy of Cassini’s Mission Archive (558908)
Linda Joyce Spilker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Scott G Edgington, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Variations in Titan’s FUV Airglow as Function of the Solar Cycle and Saturn Local Time (562623)
Marielle Cooper, La Jolla, California, United States; University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Emilie M Royer, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Larry W Esposito, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Spectral Modeling and Observations of Compositional Changes caused by Rainstorms on Titan (565205)
Shaelyn Raposa, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Ottinger Hayne, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Partial dissociation of clathrate hydrates in the presence of ammonia: a potential mechanism for replenishing Titan’s atmospheric methane (569279)
Mathieu Choukroun1, Tuan Hoang Vu2, Helen Elizabeth Maynard-Casely3, Christophe Sotin2, Ashley Gerard Davies1 and Claire Petuya1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, NSW, Australia
 
New Insights From A Survey Of Mountainous Terrain On Titan Using The Cassini RADAR Altimeter (583586)
Daniel Lalich1, Alexander Hayes2, Valerio Poggiali2 and Marco Mastroguiseppe3, (1)Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Deposition and Detectability of Deltas on Titan (585604)
Samuel Birch, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, J Taylor Perron, MIT---EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States, Rose Palermo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andrew D Ashton, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jason M Soderblom, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Experimental and Theoretical Exploration of Titan’s Ocean Chemistry (588246)
Kelly E Miller, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Dionysios Foustoukos, Carnegie Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Conel Alexander, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
The Surface Energy of “Tholin” and its Implication on Haze-Liquids Interactions on Titan (590714)
Xinting Yu1,2, Sarah M Horst2, Chao He2, Patricia McGuiggan3 and Xi Zhang1, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Detection of Prebiotic Molecules in Titan Analog Materials in support of the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer Investigation (597460)
Melissa G Trainer1, Cyril Szopa2, Caroline Freissinet3, Victoria Da Poian4,5, Xiang Li1,6, Andrej Grubisic1, Ryan Danell7, Arnaud Buch8, William B Brinckerhoff1, Morgan L Cable9 and Sarah M Horst10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Southeastern Research Universities Associates, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)UMBC Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST), Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)Danell Consulting, Winterville, NC, United States, (8)CentraleSupelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Statistics of Climatic and Topographic Variables Related to the Alluvial Fan Distribution on Titan (598722)
Rebecca A Lewis1, Jonathan Mitchell2, Seulgi Moon1, Juan Manuel Lora3, Julia W Miller4 and Alexander Hayes5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Yale University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States, (4)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
THE BATHYMETRY OF MORAY SINUS AT KRAKEN MARE (621159)
Valerio Poggiali, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Marco Mastrogiuseppe, Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States and Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France
 
Photopolymerization of HCN/HC3N mixed ice to produce tholins that incorporate HCN (621724)
Stephanie McKean1, Benjamin Fleury1, Murthy S. Gudipati2 and Isabelle Couturier-Tamburelli3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France
 
Effects of propane on the three-phase vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium of nitrogen/methane/ethane at temperatures relevant to Titan (623920)
Sugata P Tan, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
The Temporal Variability of Titan’s Atmosphere During Northern Summer (626596)
Alexander E Thelen1, M Cordiner1, Conor A Nixon1, Emmanuel Garcia Berrios2, Steven B Charnley1 and Patrick GJ Irwin3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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