MacKenzie, SM;
Birch, SPD;
Hörst, S;
Sotin, C;
Barth, E;
Lora, JM;
Trainer, MG;
... Coates, A; + view all
(2021)
Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside.
Planetary Science Journal
, 2
(3)
, Article 112. 10.3847/PSJ/abf7c9.
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Abstract
Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic-rich ocean world offering unparalleled opportunities to explore prebiotic chemistry. And while Cassini-Huygens revolutionized our understanding of each of the three "layers" of Titan-the atmosphere, the surface, and the interior-we are only beginning to hypothesize how these realms interact. In this paper, we summarize the current state of Titan knowledge and discuss how future exploration of Titan would address some of the next decade's most compelling planetary science questions. We also demonstrate why exploring Titan, both with and beyond the Dragonfly New Frontiers mission, is a necessary and complementary component of an Ocean Worlds Program that seeks to understand whether habitable environments exist elsewhere in our solar system.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3847/PSJ/abf7c9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abf7c9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134474 |
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