Possible morphotectonic features on Titan and similarities with the Earth

Details Possible morphotectonic features on Titan and similarities with the Earth Possible morphotectonic features on Titan and similarities with the Earth

Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.718

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Saturn's largest satellite Titan is one of the most interesting planetary bodies. Since 2004 it is being explored by the Cassini-Huygens joint ESA/NASA mission, whose results indicate that it might be geologically active and may support local tectonic processes. Titan possesses a dynamic, multivariable and Earth-like (albeit with different materials) geology modified by fluvial, aeolian, impact and most probably tectonic and cryovolcanic processes as seen mainly from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard Cassini and Huygens probe's data. Morphotectonic-like structures such as ridges, mountains, faults and canyons [1; 2] as well as cryovolcanic structures like calderas, domes, flows and radial faults [3] are surficial evidence of the aforementioned dynamic activities. Herewith, we present the major morphotectonic structures seen on Titan and compare them with terrestrial ones in order to discover visual and constructional similarities. We also provide an association of the surface features with current internal models, as well as with formation processes occurring on the Earth.

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