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Athena Coustenis
Director of Research CNRS, Observatoire De Paris
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The JUICE mission and expected insights on Ganymede, Callisto and Europa
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Athena Coustenis, Olivier Witasse
ESAs Jupiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), 13 years in the making, finally launched on April 14, 2023 at 14:14 CEST (9:14 AM local), from the ESA spacep...
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Jupiter's and Saturn's icy moons : atmospheric research objectives of future missions.
EARTH GEYSERS AND OCEAN WORLD PLUMES: THE CHALLENGES OF CHARACTERIZING A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT I ONLINE SESSION
ocean worlds near and far | 17 may 2022
Athena Coustenis, Conor A. Nixon, Therese Encrenaz...
While Juno is currently exploring Jupiter’s system and some of its satellites, Cassini-Huygens explored the Saturnian satellites until 2017, making se...
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A compositional map for Titan’s surface
TITAN: ATMOSPHERE, SURFACE, AND INTERIOR II POSTER
planetary sciences | 16 december 2021
Anezina Solomonidou, Athena Coustenis, Rosaly M. L...
The investigation of Titans surface chemical composition is of great importance for the understanding of the atmosphere-surface-interior system of the...
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Search for habitable conditions in the outer solar system
EUGENE SHOEMAKER LECTURE I
planetary sciences | 13 december 2021
Athena Coustenis
The large satellites of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, at orbits beyond the snow-line and the traditional habitability zone, have been revealed as...
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The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FUTURE OF PLANETARY SCIENCE I POSTERS
planetary sciences | 16 december 2020
Conor A. Nixon, James B. Abshire, Andrew D. Ashton...
Titan is one of the most exciting and varied destinations in our solar system. Titan’s surface includes seas, lakes, dunes, desiccated river valleys a...
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The raised ramparts around Titan’s northern lakes: Spectral and emissivity analysis
TITAN: THE EXOTIC AND ENIGMATIC MOON II POSTERS
planetary sciences | 10 december 2019
Anezina Solomonidou, Alice A. Le Gall, Michael Mal...
We investigate the spectral and microwave properties of the raised ramparts of five liquid-filled lakes [e.g.1;2;3] in Titans north pole using both Ca...
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Geological Evolution of Titan's Equatorial Regions: Possible Nature and Origin of the Dune Material
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
07 may 2018
Jeremy Brossier, Sebastien Rodriguez, Thomas Corne...
In 13 years, infrared observations from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer onboard Cassini provided significant hints about the spec...
The Spectral Nature of Titan's Major Geomorphological Units: Constraints on Surface Composition
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
22 february 2018
Anezina Solomonidou, Athena Coustenis, Rosaly M. L...
We investigate Titan's low‐latitude and midlatitude surface using spectro‐imaging near‐infrared data from Cassini/Visual and Infr...