Revealing Titan's Secrets
Dr. Peter Ford
Wed Jan 18, 02-02:30pm, Marlar: 37-252
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Surrounded by a deep atmosphere, methane clouds, and hydrocarbon hazes, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long resisted our attempts to understand its present conditions and past history. With the arrival of the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe in 2004, a variety of instruments have observed Titan at many wavelengths, revealing a body that bears many similarities to Earth: rivers, lakes, rain, dunes, and a surface that is one of the youngest in the solar system. This talk will concentrate on recent attempts to answer some of the most baffling questions about this giant moon: how, why, and when did it form, and from what materials? is there an ocean hidden deep beneath its surface? and why do the dunes point in the "wrong" direction?
Web: http://space.mit.edu/home/nss/iap2012/iap_activities_2012.html
Contact: Norbert S. Schulz, NE80-6075, (617) 258-5767, nss@space.mit.edu
Sponsor: Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Latest update: 20-Dec-2011
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