Titan After Cassini-Huygens
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2024
- Editors: Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Charles Elachi, Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Anezina Solomonidou
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 6 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 6 2 - 9
Titan After Cassini-Huygens is the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of our knowledge on Titan, including results and insights from the joint NASA/European Space Agency/It… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTitan After Cassini-Huygens is the most up-to-date and 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 the conclusions drawn by experts following detailed analysis of the mission data. 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 the origin and evolution of Titan, its magnetic and plasma environment, surface, interior structure, geology, atmosphere, and the astrobiological potential for the oceans on the moon.
The first book of the new COSPAR book series, Titan After Cassini-Huygens, is an integral reference for scientists, researchers, and academics working on Titan or ocean worlds.
Part of the COSPAR Book Series
Edited by Jean-Louis Fellous, former Executive Director of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research; 2008–2019)
- Details the total knowledge of Titan from Cassini-Huygens and subsequent observations from Earth, as well as laboratory and theoretical studies from the last decade
- Covers all aspects of Titan, including origin and evolution, magnetic and plasma environment, surface, interior structure, geology, atmospheric science and astrobiological potential
- Provides detailed, referenceable data from investigators of the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe, as well as the ALMA radio telescope observatory
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
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
- No. of pages: 420
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323991612
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Rosaly M.C. Lopes
Rosaly Lopes is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she is also Manager of the Planetary Science Section. An expert on planetary volcanism, she worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and is currently on the science team of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Her research expertise is on volcanoes in the Solar System, particularly the active volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io and the ice volcanoes of Saturn's icy moons. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and the winner of the American Astronomical Society’s 2005 Carl Sagan Medal. She has published seven books and over one hundred and twenty peer-reviewed publications
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USACE
Charles Elachi
Dr. Charles Elachi is Professor (Emeritus) of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2016 he was the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vice President of California Institute of Technology. During his tenure, he oversaw the development and operations of over 45 flight missions and instruments, and was principal investigator on a number of NASA-sponsored studies and projects including the Shuttle Imaging Radar series the Magellan Imaging Radar, the Cassini Titan Radar and the Europa Sounding Radar. He was the Team Leader for the Titan Imaging Radar on the Cassini mission and has been honored with numerous awards, including the von Karman award from the International Academy of Astronautics and three NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals. In 1989, Asteroid 1982 SU was renamed 4116 Elachi in recognition of his contribution to planetary exploration and, in 2016 the JPL/NASA Mission Control Center was renamed “The Charles Elachi Mission Control Center”. He has authored over 230 publications and holds several patents in his fields.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor (Emeritus), Department Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, USAIM
Ingo Mueller-Wodarg
Dr. Ingo Mueller-Wodarg is Reader in Physics at Imperial College London and an expert in the study of atmospheres of planets, moons and smaller objects in our Solar System. He developed the only available global circulation model of Titan’s upper atmosphere and similar models for other solar system atmospheres. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including 30 on Titan, and was lead editor of the 2014 Cambridge University Press book "Titan: Interior, Surface, Atmosphere and Space Environment". In 2002 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He was Science Team Member of the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer and Team Leader for the Venus Express Atmospheric Drag Experiment and is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument on ESA’s forthcoming Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE).
Affiliations and expertise
Reader in Physics, Imperial College London, UKAS
Anezina Solomonidou
Dr. Anezina Solomonidou is a planetary scientist specializing in planetary geology and investigating the potentially habitable worlds of our solar system. She obtained her Ph.D. on the geology and astrobiology of the Saturnian icy moons from the Paris Observatory in France. She has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech in Los Angeles, California, as a postdoctoral researcher on the Cassini mission. In addition, she has worked as a research fellow at the European Space Agency in Madrid, focusing on the preparation for ESA’s new space mission to the outer solar system, JUICE, and continuing her work on the icy moons of Saturn, and Mars. At the beginning of 2021, she returned to Caltech and JPL to continue her research. Dr. Solomonidou has proposed a series of planetary experiments focused on the exotic environments of the icy satellites of the giant planets, and she has contributed to the design of future missions. She serves as a review panelist for international boards and NASA panels, where she evaluates scientific proposals for planetary research. Finally, she convenes planetary science sessions in international conferences and contributes to several ESA and NASA outreach activities.
Affiliations and expertise
Planetary Scientist, California Institute of Technology, USA