A submillimeter sounder for the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM)

Details A submillimeter sounder for the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) A submillimeter sounder for the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM)

Sep 2008

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European Planetary Science Congress 2008, Proceedings of the conference held 21-25 September, 2008 in Münster, Germany. Online a

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A submillimeter sounder (SMS) onboard the TSSM mission and operating mostly in limb viewing is a powerful instrument to study Titan's atmosphere from ~50 to 1200 km, and especially the largely unexplored "agnostophere" from 500 to 1000 km. Unique capabilities of such an instrument include (i) measurement of temperature field up to 1200 km, using rotational lines of CH4, CO, and HCN (ii) direct, absolute and accurate wind measurements from Doppler shifts (iii) high sensitivity to trace minor compounds, particularly nitriles and rare isotope species. Altogether, SMS can provide a new characterization of the couplings between stratospheric/mesospheric chemistry and dynamics, and of their relationships with the complex thermospheric chemistry observed by Cassini. At Enceladus, SMS can provide detailed measurements of temperature, composition and gas plume dynamics.

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