Titan's surface: Nature and implications for Cassini

Details Titan's surface: Nature and implications for Cassini Titan's surface: Nature and implications for Cassini

Dec 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985esasp.241...83l&link_type=abstract

In ESA The Atmospheres of Saturn and Titan p 83-88 (SEE N86-28849 19-88)

Physics

Cassini Mission, Satellite Atmospheres, Satellite Surfaces, Titan, Ethane, Ice, Methane, Nitrogen, Oceans, Photolysis, Saturn (Planet), Stratosphere

Scientific paper

A model for a mixed ethane-methane-molecular nitrogen surface ocean is proposed to reconcile Voyager data on the lower atmosphere of Titan with understanding of the photolytic destruction of methane in the stratosphere. Such a reservoir would strongly affect the atmosphere and underlying water ice bedrock of Titan, and has profound implications for the evolution of Saturn's giant moon. Understanding of the interior and atmosphere of Titan depends upon the capability of Cassini spacecraft to determine the nature of the surface on a global scale.

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