Hiding Titan's ocean: densification and hydrocarbon storage in an icy regolith

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Sep 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996p%26ss...44.1029k&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, v. 44, p. 1029-1037.

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The problem of regolith densification is examined with application to Titan, with the objective of establishing the pore volume in the regolith. A large pore volume could store the large volume of hydrocarbons required to exist on Titan's surface by photochemical models, forming a ``buried ocean'', a surface model more compatible with observational constraints than the global ocean model favored in the last decade. A sophisticated coupled model of methane diffusion and regolith densification is presented. It is found that several hundred meters equivalent ``ocean'' depth can be concealed in the regolith. Further, methane diffusion through the regolith is fast enough to maintain the atmospheric methane concentration against photolysis. ``Hydrothermal'' methane circulation may play a significant role in surface chemistry and heat transport.

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