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Article Dans Une Revue The Planetary Science Journal Année : 2021

Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside

Samuel Birch
Michael Malaska
Ella Sciamma-O’brien
Alexander Thelen
Jennifer Hanley
Anezina Solomonidou
Claire Newman
Alexander Hayes
Baptiste Journaux
Jordan Steckloff
Delphine Nna-Mvondo
Thomas Cornet
Maureen Palmer
Rosaly Lopes
Sandrine Vinatier
Ralph Lorenz
Conor Nixon
Ellen Czaplinski
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Jason Barnes
Ed Sittler
Andrew Coates

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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.
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hal-03657991 , version 1 (03-05-2022)

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Shannon Mackenzie, Samuel Birch, Sarah Hörst, Christophe Sotin, Erika Barth, et al.. Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside. The Planetary Science Journal, 2021, 2, 13 pp. ⟨10.3847/psj/abf7c9⟩. ⟨hal-03657991⟩
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