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/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)
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.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.
Authors
Rosaly M.C. Lopes Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA. 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 Charles Elachi Professor (Emeritus), Department Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, USA. 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. Ingo Mueller-Wodarg Professor in Physics, Imperial College London, UK.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).
Anezina Solomonidou Planetary Scientist, Hellenic Space Center, Greece.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.
