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Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)
Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier +61
In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest m…
Detection of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet
Mark R. Swain, Raissa Estrela, Gael M. Roudier +7
We report the detection of an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b, which is similar to Earth in terms of size and density. The atmospheric transmission spectrum was detected…
Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside
Shannon M. MacKenzie, Samuel P. D. Birch, Sarah Horst +30
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 wor…
Differing Enceladean ocean circulation and ice shell geometries driven by tidal heating in the ice versus the core
Wanying Kang, Suyash Bire, Jean-Michel Campin +4
Beneath the icy shell encasing Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, a global ocean of liquid water ejects geyser-like plumes into space through fissures in the ice, making it an…
Tidal Currents Detected in Kraken Mare Straits from Cassini VIMS Sun Glitter Observations
Michael F. Heslar, Jason W. Barnes, Jason M. Soderblom +3
We present Cassini VIMS observations of sun glitter -- wave-induced reflections from a liquid surface offset from a specular point -- on Kraken Mare. Sun glitter reveals rough sea…
Photometrically-corrected global infrared mosaics of Enceladus: New implications for its spectral diversity and geological activity
Rozenn Robinel, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Gabriel Tobie +4
Between 2004 and 2017, spectral observations have been gathered by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on-board Cassini (Brown et al., 2004) during 23 Enceladus clo…