Titan Mare Explorer - Wikipedia
WEBTitan Mare Explorer (TiME) is a proposed design for a lander for Saturn's moon Titan. TiME is a relatively low-cost, outer-planet mission designed to measure the organic constituents on Titan and would have performed the first nautical exploration of an extraterrestrial sea, analyze its nature and, possibly, observe its shoreline.
WEBLander to Titanʼs Ligeia Mare methane-ethane polar sea, 96 days on surface Goals: • Understand Titanʼs methane cycle through study of a Titan sea. • Investigate Titanʼs history & explore the limits of life Instruments: • Meteorology & physical properties (MP3) • Mass Spec for Lake Chemistry (NMS),
WEBTiME for Titan • First nautical exploration of an extraterrestrial sea • Constrain the role of lakes and seas in Titan’s active carbon cycle and search for signs of self-organizing organic chemistry • Unique and wide-ranging EPO opportunity • Low-cost approach • ASRG validation in two environments
Sailing the Titan Seas | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...
WEBMay 6, 2011 · The Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), a candidate for NASA's next Discovery-class mission, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond Earth by landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on the cloudy, complex moon of Saturn.
WEBThe Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) (Fig. 1) is a Discovery-class mission that would constrain Titan’s active methane cycle as well as its intriguing prebiotic organic chemistry by providing in situ measurements from the surface of a Titan sea. Figure 1. …
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WEBTitan Mare Explorer (TiME): first in situ exploration of an extraterrestrial sea. In: Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, 26-29 Apr 2010, League City, Texas, USA.
WEBThe conceptual design of a submarine for Saturn’s moon Titan was a funded NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I for 2014. The effort investigated what science a submarine for Titan’s liquid hydrocarbon ~93 K (–180 °C) seas might accomplish and what that submarine might look like.
WEBThe Titan Mare Explorer is a lake lander, which would float on the surface of a sea, performing chemical, meteorological and visual observations. The primary target for the mission is Ligeia Mare (78°N, 250°W) (Fig. 2), one of the largest seas mapped to date on Titan with a surface area of ~100,000 km2.
New analysis of Cassini data yields insights into Titan’s seas
WEB6 days ago · The team analyzed data from the egress observations of Titan’s three large polar seas: Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare and Punga Mare. Their analysis found differences in the composition of the hydrocarbon seas’ surface layers, dependent on latitude and location (near rivers and estuaries, for example). Specifically, the southernmost portion of ...
Surface properties of the seas of Titan as revealed by Cassini
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Tracks are plotted on a RADAR/ISS basemap mosaic showing the Titan’s three large polar liquid hydrocarbon seas, Kraken Mare (60–80 °N, 30–80 °E), Ligeia Mare (75–83 °N, 80–140 °E ...
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