Titan's inventory of organic surface materials
hal.structure.identifier | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] [APL] | |
dc.contributor.author | LORENZ, Ralph D. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | MITCHELL, Karl L. | |
hal.structure.identifier | US Geological Survey [Flagstaff] | |
dc.contributor.author | KIRK, Randolph L. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena] | |
dc.contributor.author | HAYES, Alexander G. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena] | |
dc.contributor.author | AHARONSON, Oded | |
hal.structure.identifier | Department of Electrical Engineering [Stanford] | |
dc.contributor.author | ZEBKER, Howard A. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux [L3AB] | |
hal.structure.identifier | Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers [OASU] | |
dc.contributor.author | PAILLOU, Philippe | |
hal.structure.identifier | Department of Geological Sciences [BYU] | |
dc.contributor.author | RADEBAUGH, Jani | |
hal.structure.identifier | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson] [LPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | LUNINE, Jonathan I. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | JANSSEN, Michael A. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | WALL, Stephen D. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | LOPES, Rosaly M. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | STILES, Bryan | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | OSTRO, Steve | |
hal.structure.identifier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] | |
dc.contributor.author | MITRI, Giuseppe | |
hal.structure.identifier | Proxemy Research Inc | |
dc.contributor.author | STOFAN, Ellen R. | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-8276 | |
dc.description.abstractEn | Cassini RADAR observations now permit an initial assessment of the inventory of two classes, presumed to be organic, of Titan surface materials: polar lake liquids and equatorial dune sands. Several hundred lakes or seas have been observed, of which dozens are each estimated to contain more hydrocarbon liquid than the entire known oil and gas reserves on Earth. Dark dunes cover some 20% of Titan's surface, and comprise a volume of material several hundred times larger than Earth's coal reserves. Overall, however, the identified surface inventories (>3 × 104 km3 of liquid, and >2 × 105 km3 of dune sands) are small compared with estimated photochemical production on Titan over the age of the solar system. The sand volume is too large to be accounted for simply by erosion in observed river channels or ejecta from observed impact craters. The lakes are adequate in extent to buffer atmospheric methane against photolysis in the short term, but do not contain enough methane to sustain the atmosphere over geologic time. Unless frequent resupply from the interior buffers this greenhouse gas at exactly the right rate, dramatic climate change on Titan is likely in its past, present and future. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | American Geophysical Union | |
dc.subject.en | Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Titan | |
dc.subject.en | Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Surface materials and properties | |
dc.subject.en | Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Remote sensing | |
dc.subject.en | Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Atmospheres (0343 | |
dc.subject.en | 1060) | |
dc.title.en | Titan's inventory of organic surface materials | |
dc.type | Article de revue | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1029/2007GL032118 | |
dc.subject.hal | Physique [physics]/Astrophysique [astro-ph]/Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO] | |
dc.subject.hal | Planète et Univers [physics]/Astrophysique [astro-ph] | |
bordeaux.journal | Geophysical Research Letters | |
bordeaux.page | 02206 | |
bordeaux.volume | 35 | |
bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
hal.identifier | hal-00261487 | |
hal.version | 1 | |
hal.popular | non | |
hal.audience | Non spécifiée | |
hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-00261487v1 | |
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