Titan After Cassini-Huygens

ISBN-13: 9780323991612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025

Rosaly M. C. Lopes; Charles Elachi; Ingo Mueller-Wodarg

Opis

Titan After Cassini-Huygens provides comprehensive coverage of our knowledge on Titan, including results and insights from the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Italian Space Agency mission Cassini-Huygens and conclusions drawn by experts. Our knowledge of Titan has increased substantially due to observations from the Cassini-Huygens mission, which ended in 2017. Since then, observations from Earth, as well as laboratory and theoretical studies, have continued to add to our knowledge. These conclusions, combined with the latest ground-based and theoretical research, provide the most recent understanding of the science of Titan, covering origin, evolution, its magnetic and plasma environment, surface, interior structure, geology, atmosphere, and more. In the first book of the new COSPAR book series, readers will find the most in-depth, up-to-date coverage of our knowledge of Titan. This will be an integral reference for scientists, researchers and academics working on Titan or ocean worlds.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. History of Exploration before and after Cassini-Huygens
3. The Origin and Evolution of Titan
4. Titan's magnetic and plasma environment
5. Titan's Atmospheric Structure, Dynamics, and Composition
6. Titan's upper neutral atmosphere and ionosphere
7. Global Geology of Titan 8. The Lakes and Rivers of Titan
9. Surface Composition and organic inventory
10. The Interior of Titan and its Interior Ocean
11. Exchange processes between surface, atmosphere, and interior
12. The Astrobiological Potential of ocean and lakes
13. Future exploration and major unresolved questions