泰坦：外表似地球，内里为海洋世界
地球与行星天体物理
2021-02-18 v1 大气与海洋物理
摘要
得益于Cassini-Huygens任务，这颗在Pioneer与Voyager邂逅中苍白橘色圆点般的泰坦，已被揭示为一个动态的、受水文学塑造的、富含有机物的海洋世界，为探索前生物化学提供了无与伦比的机会。尽管Cassini-Huygens革新了我们对泰坦三层——大气、表面与内部——中每一层的理解，我们才刚刚开始假设这些领域如何相互作用。本文中，我们总结泰坦知识的现状，并讨论未来对泰坦的探测将如何解答未来十年最引人注目的行星科学问题中的一些。我们还论证了无论借助还是超越Dragonfly新边疆任务来探测泰坦，都是旨在理解太阳系他处是否存在宜居环境的海洋世界计划（Ocean Worlds Program）中必要且互补的组成部分。
引用
@article{arxiv.2102.08472,
title = {Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside},
author = {Shannon M. MacKenzie and Samuel P. D. Birch and Sarah Horst and Christophe Sotin and Erika Barth and Juan M. Lora and Melissa G. Trainer and Paul Corlies and Michael J. Malaska and Ella Sciamma-O'Brien and Alexander E. Thelen and Elizabeth P. Turtle and Jani Radebaugh and Jennifer Hanley and Anezina Solomonidou and Claire Newman and Leonardo Regoli and Sebastien Rodriguez and Benoit Seignovert and Alexander G. Hayes and Baptiste Journaux and Jordan Steckloff and Delphine Nna-Mvondo and Thomas Cornet and Maureen Palmer and Rosaly M. C. Lopes and Sandrine Vinatier and Ralph Lorenz and Conor Nixon and Ellen Czaplinski and Jason W. Barnes and Ed Sittler and Andrew Coates},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08472},
year = {2021}
}
备注
Submitted to the PSJ Focus Issue on Ocean World Exploration