Titan's Snowline

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Aug 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002icar..158..557l&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 158, Issue 2, p. 557-559.

Physics

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We show that the ``snowline'' altitude on Titan, above which the condensed nonideal methane-nitrogen phase is solid, is lower (~14 km) near the equator than at high latitudes (~19 km). This counterintuitive result derives from the thermodynamic behavior of the binary condensate. The snowline altitude is an operating constraint on future Titan missions where icing would pose a ceiling on atmospheric flight. These snowline altitudes are higher than likely topography, suggesting that optically bright regions on Titan are not due to veneering caused by methane frost deposition.

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