Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are examining Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to determine its tidal dissipation rate-the energy lost as it interacts with Saturn's immense gravitational field. Insights into this process provide valuable clues abo...
Titan's thick, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere allows for aeolian processes to shape the surface by transporting photochemically derived organic debris analogously to how silica or gypsum grains are transported on Earth (e.g. Barnes et al., 2015). Titan's equatorial zones are dominated by massive ...
While measuring Titan’s magnetic field has the potential to reveal the moon’s interior in unique and valuable ways, single-point measurements of Titan’s magnetic field would be uninterpretable without simultaneous measurement of Saturn’s field exterior to Titan’s atmosphere. Essentially, making ...