An asymmetric distribution of lakes on Titan as a possible consequence of orbital forcing

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 851-854

  Aharonson, O ^a   Hayes, A G ^a   Lunine, J I ^b   Lorenz, R D ^c   Allison, M D ^d   Elachi, C ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249099917     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo698     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Stofan, E. R. et al. The lakes of Titan. Nature 445, 61-64 (2007).
2. Elachi, C. et al. Cassini radar views the surface of Titan. Science 308, 970-974 (2005). (Pubitemid 40664397)
3. Turtle, E. P. et al. Cassini imaging of Titan's high-latitude lakes, clouds, and south-polar surface changes. Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L02203 (2009).
4. Elachi, C. et al. Radar: The Cassini Titan RADAR mapper. Space Sci. Rev. 115, 71-110 (2004).
5. Hayes, A. et al. Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan: Distribution and interaction with a porous regolith. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L09204 (2008).
6. Lunine, J. I. & Lorenz, R. D. Rivers, lakes, dunes, and rain: Crustal processes in Titan's methane cycle. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 37, 299-320 (2009).
7. Lorenz, R. D. et al. Titan's north-south asymmetry from HST and Voyager imaging: Comparison with models and ground-based photometry. Icarus 127, 173-189 (1997).
8. Lorenz, R. D., Lemmon, M. T., Smith, P. H. & Lockwood, G. W. Seasonal change on Titan observed with the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-2. Icarus 142, 391-401 (1999).
9. Mitri, G., Showman, A. P., Lunine, J. I. & Lorenz, R. D. Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Icarus 186, 385-394 (2007).
10. Lunine, J. I. et al. Lack of south polar methane lakes on Titan. Lunar Planet. Inst. Conf. Abstracts 39, 1637 (2008).
11. Stevenson, D. J. & Potter, B. E. Titans latitudinal temperature distribution and seasonal cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett. 13, 93-96 (1986).
12. Hayes, A. et al. Evidence for Transient Surface Liquid in Titans South Polar Region. AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts Vol. 41, 21.02 (American Astronomical Society, 2009).
13. Mitchell, J. L. The drying of Titan's dunes: Titan's methane hydrology and its impact on atmospheric circulation. J. Geophys. Res. 113, E08015 (2008).
14. Zebker, H. A. et al. Size and shape of saturn's moon Titan. Science 324, 921-923 (2009).
15. Janssen, M. A. et al. Titans surface at 2.2-cm wavelength imaged by the Cassini radar radiometre: Calibration and first results. Icarus 200, 222-239 (2009).
16. Giorgini, J. D. et al. JPL's on-line solar system data service. Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 28, 1158 (1996).
17. Barnes, J. W. et al. Shoreline features of Titan's Ontario Lacus from Cassini/VIMS observations. Icarus 201, 217-225 (2009).
18. Brown, R. H. et al. The identification of liquid ethane in Titan's Ontario Lacus. Nature 454, 607-610 (2008).
19. Newman, C. E., Richardson, M. I., Lee, C., Toigo, A. D. & Ewald, S. P. The Titan WRF Model at the end of the Cassini Prime Mission. Eos 89, AGU Fall Meet. Abstr. (2008).
20. Graves, S. D. B., Schneider, T. & Schaller, E. L. The climate and seasonal cycle on Titan: Atmospheric dynamics and methane cycle. Division of Planetary Sciences, AAS, abstr. 17.09 (2009).
21. Setzmann, U. & Wagner, W. A new equation of state and tables of thermodynamic properties for methane covering the range from the melting line to 625 K at pressures up to 1,000 MPa. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 20, 1061-1155 (1991).
22. McKay, C. P., Pollack, J. B. & Courtin, R. The greenhouse and antigreenhouse effects on Titan. Science 253, 1118-1121 (1991).
23. Levison, H. F. & Duncan, M. J. The long-term dynamical behaviour of short-period comets. Icarus 108, 18-36 (1994).
24. Wisdom, J. & Holman, M. Symplectic maps for the n-body problem. Astron. J. 102, 1528-1538 (1991).
25. Tokano, T., Neubauer, F. M., Laube, M. & McKay, C. P. Seasonal variation of Titans atmospheric structure simulated by a general circulation model. Planet. Space Sci. 47, 493-520 (1999).
26. Lorenz, R. D., West, R. D. & Johnson, W. T. K. Cassini radar constraint on Titan's winter polar precipitation. Icarus 195, 812-816 (2008).
27. Paillou, P. et al. Microwave dielectric constant of Titan-relevant materials. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L18202 (2008).
28. Lorenz, R. D. et al. Titan's young surface: Initial impact crater survey by Cassini RADAR and model comparison. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L07204 (2007).
29. Wood, C. et al. Impact craters on Titan. Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus. 2009.08.021 (in the press).