2008
DOI: 10.1063/1.2844991
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Titan Explorer: A NASA Flagship Mission Concept

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“…Coustenis et al 2009;Tobie et al 2014). A Titan orbiter equipped with a thermal infrared spectrometer (as in the 2007 Titan Explorer mission concept, Lorenz & Waite 2008) and other instruments would permit frequent global 'snapshot' measurements of the entire atmospheric state, including temperature, winds and composition. These, in turn, would enable much tighter constraints to be placed on atmospheric models, such as coupled chemistry and climate 3-D Titan GCMs now under development (Lebonnois et al 2009(Lebonnois et al , 2012.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Coustenis et al 2009;Tobie et al 2014). A Titan orbiter equipped with a thermal infrared spectrometer (as in the 2007 Titan Explorer mission concept, Lorenz & Waite 2008) and other instruments would permit frequent global 'snapshot' measurements of the entire atmospheric state, including temperature, winds and composition. These, in turn, would enable much tighter constraints to be placed on atmospheric models, such as coupled chemistry and climate 3-D Titan GCMs now under development (Lebonnois et al 2009(Lebonnois et al , 2012.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3. We note that similar studies for identification of organic compounds from orbit have been conducted for the 5.0 -6.0 µm region Lorenz et al (2008), the 2.6 -2.8 µm and 5.0 -5.2 µm windows accessible to VIMS (Clark et al, 2010), but we expand on these here considerably by considering all windows between 0.4 µm -10 µm, the ability to detect at several mission architecture altitudes, and a wider range of compounds. For the alkanes Fig.…”
Section: Ability To Detect Surface Compoundsmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…The Lockwood report in turn became a significant input to a Titan 'flagship' (i.e. large-size) mission study commissioned by NASA and led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [6], which emphasized aerocapture as a preferable option to chemical propulsion for enhancing delivered mass into Titan orbit.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%