Titan After Cassini-Huygens
- 1st Edition - January 28, 2025
- 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
Chapter 2: History of Exploration.
Chapter 3: The Origin and Evolution of Titan.
Chapter 4: Astrodynamics.
Chapter 5: Titan’s magnetic and plasma environment.
Chapter 6: Titan’s upper neutral atmosphere and ionosphere.
Chapter 7: Titan’s Atmospheric Structure, Dynamics, and Composition.
Chapter 8: Titan’s Climate and Evolution.
Chapter 9: Global Geology of Titan.
Chapter 10: The Lakes and Rivers of Titan.
Chapter 11: Titan Surface Composition.
Chapter 12: The Interior of Titan.
Chapter 13: Exchange processes between surface, atmosphere, and interior.
Chapter 14: The Astrobiological Potential.
Chapter 15: Major unresolved questions and future exploration.
- No. of pages: 540
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323991612
- eBook ISBN: 9780323991629
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Rosaly M.C. Lopes
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Charles Elachi
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Ingo Mueller-Wodarg
Dr Ingo Mueller-Wodarg is Professor 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 published 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).
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Anezina Solomonidou
Dr. Anezina Solomonidou is a planetary scientist specializing in planetary geology and investigating the potentially habitable worlds of our solar system. She is the Scientific Officer of the Greek Space Agency for Space Sciences and Exploration. She has obtained her doctoral title on astronomy and astrophysics from the Paris Observatory in France. She has worked for many years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech in Los Angeles, California, on the Cassini-Huygens and the Europa Clipper missions, as well as the European Space Agency (ESA) in Madrid for the preparation of ESA’s new space mission, JUICE. She has authored a plethora of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and chapters in books. Dr. Solomonidou has proposed a series of planetary experiments and has contributed to the design of future missions. She is the President of the Division for Planetary Sciences (PS) for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and serves as a review panelist for international boards and NASA panels, where she evaluates scientific proposals for planetary research.