Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar
The Persistence of Methane Through Time on Saturn's Moon Titan
ABSTRACT: Methane creates a volatile cycle on Titan akin to the Earth's hydrologic cycle. But why does methane continue to do so after 4.5 billion years of geologic time when it is so unstable against photolysis? I will show how a variety of Cassini -Huygens data can be assembled to yield a self-consistent picture of methane resupply over time.
Date & Time
April 17, 2012 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location
Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics LibrarySpeakers
Jonathan Lunine
Affiliation
Cornell University