Cassini-Huygens Project: Huygens Legacy and Future Titan Exploration

Scientific programme

PROGRAMME

Subject to slight changes and adjustments

Tuesday, 12th of January

19:30 City Hall
Welcome reception

THEMES FOR THE MEETING

Wednesday, 13th of January

830 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 11:30 Agora room
Session 1:
Cassini-Huygens History and introductory talks (Invited)
Chairs: R. Pappalardo, C. Sotin
915 - 930 Introduction/Logistics
930 - 10:00 Overview of the mission (D. Matson, J-P. Lebreton)
1000 - 10:30 HASI (D. Strobel, A. Coustenis, R. Grard and the HASI Team)
1030 - 11:00 DISR (B. Bezard, R. West and the DISR Team)
1100 - 11:30 DWE (M. Bird and the DWE Team)
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:15 Agora room
Session 1 continues
1145 - 12:15 GCMS (H. Niemann and the GCMS Team)
1215 - 12:45 ACP (M. Cabane and the ACP Team)
1245 - 13:15 SSP (J. Zarnecki, M. Leese and the SSP team)
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Agora room

Session 2:
Scientific and synergistic lessons learned from Cassini-Huygens (Invited)
Chairs: A. Coustenis, D. Matson
1430 - 15:00 Surface composition and geology (L. Soderblom)
1500 - 15:30 The methane/ethane cycle on Titan five years after Huygens (J. Lunine by VIdeoconference)
1530 - 16:00 Titan's upper atmosphere & interactions with the magnetosphere of Saturn (M. Blanc)
1600 - 1630 Posters and Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Agora room
Session 2 continues
1630 - 17:00 Chemistry of Titan's upper atmosphere (D. Strobel)
1700 - 17:30 Titan Astrobiology (F. Raulin)
1730 - 1745 Transport to the Observatory of Fabra
1745 - 1930 Visit the Observatory of Fabra

Thursday 14th of January

9:30 - 11:05 Agora room
Session 3:
Scientific and technical discoveries and lessons learned
Chairs: J-P. Lebreton, F. Raulin
930 - 9:50 Huygens design trade-offs and flight performances: Lessons learned (P. Couzin)
950 - 10:10 Delivering Huygens to Titan (J. Jones)
1010 - 10:30 VLBI (L. Gurvits)
1030 - 1045 DISR image processing on board and on ground (B. Grieger)
1045 - 11:05 ISS results review (Z. Turtle)
11:05 - 11:35 Posters and Coffee Break
11:35 - 13:15 Agora room
Session 3 continues
1135 - 1155 Surface properties and features from Radar (R. Lorenz)
1155 - 12:15 Mapping Titan from Global Geodesy to Huygens Hydrology (R. Kirk)
1215 - 12:35 VIMS observations of Titan lakes (R. Brown)
1235 - 12:55 Specular reflection (J. Soderblom)
1255 - 13:15 DISR-VIMS Comparison (C. Sotin)
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Agora room
Session 4:
Science discoveries and high-priority questions
Chairs: D. Strobel, E. Turtle
1430 - 14:45 Synergism of Saturn, Enceladus and Titan and Formation of HCNO Exobiological Molecules (E. Sittler/J. Cooper)
1445 - 15:00 Formation of NH3 and CH2NH in Titan’s upper atmosphere (R. Yelle et al.)
1500 - 15:15 An unidentified emission in Titan’s upper atmosphere (M. Lopez-Puertas et al.)
1515 - 15:30 Titan surface temperatures from CIRS (D. Jennings)
15:30 - 16:00 Posters and Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Agora room
Session 4 continues
1600 - 16:20 Titan's tropical weather (C. Griffith)
1620 - 16:35 Aerosol and cloud formation in Titan’s atmosphere (P. Lavvas et al.)
1635 - 16:50 Titan’s cloud activity (E. Schaller)
1650 - 17:10 Diversity of wind systems in Titan's troposphere (T. Tokano)
1710 - 17:30 Proposed Solstice Cassini Mission (R. Pappalardo) (invited)
1800 – 20:00 Auditorio Room
Special session:
Celebration of the landing
(public session, all talks will be in english)
Chairs: J. Lopez-Moreno

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

  • Lluis Rovira Pato
    Adjunt de Direcció General de Recerca.
    Generalitat de Catalunya.
  • Lluis Gómez
    Director de l’Àrea de Promocio Aeroespacial de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona
  • Rafael Foguet
    President de la Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

  • Rafael Rodrigo
    Presidente del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
  • Robert T. Mitchell
    Cassini Program Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech)
  • Jean-Pierre Lebreton
    Project Scientist for ESA’s Huygens probe
  • Enrico Flamini
    Solar System Exploration Missions Manager, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, (ASI)
  • Francis Rocard
    Solar System Exploration Manager, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, CNES
  • Alvaro Giménez
    Director del Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB) (INTA/CSIC)
  • Ralph D. Lorenz
    JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns University

CONFERENCES

  • Overview of the Cassini-Huygens Project from launch through some of the most recent science results
    Robert T. Mitchell
    Cassini Program Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech)

  • Titan Through Small Telescope Comas Solá’s Discovery of Titan’s Atmosphere, and Modern Amateur Observations
    Ralph D. Lorenz
    JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns University

  • Closing words
    Rafael Rodrigo
    Presidente del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
21:00 Hotel Neri
Celebration Dinner
  • History of the Huygens mission
    Daniel Gautier
    Emeritus Scientist at CNRS. Observatoire de Paris. Meudon, France

Friday 15th of January

9:00 - 11:05 Agora room
Session 5:
Titan science priorities for future exploration
Chairs: R. Lorenz, C. Griffith

Forum on Science Priorities with contributions about:

900 - 9:45 Posters summary
945 - 10:05 Magnetic field observations at Titan (M. Dougherty)
1005 - 10:25 Plasma-driven Schumann resonance (C. Beghin et al.)
1025 - 1045 Titan’s upper atmospheric chemistry (H. Waite et al.)
1045 - 11:05 Titan’s lakes & methane cycles (O. Aharonson)
11:05 - 11:35 Posters and Coffee Break
11:35 - 13:15 Agora room
Session 6:
Ideas and concepts for future Titan exploration missions
Chairs: R. Brown, M. Dougherty
1135 - 11:55 Titan Saturn System Mission (K. Reh et al.)
1155 - 12:15 Titan Montgolfière (A. Vargas et al.)
1215 - 12:35 Titan lake probe: the ongoing NASA Decadal study preliminary report (H. Waite et al.)
1235 - 1255 Titan Mare Explorer (E. Stofan, R. Lorenz, et al.)
1255 - 1315 AVIATR - Exploring Titan's Diversity from an Airplane (C. McKay, J. Barnes et al.)
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Agora room
Session 7:
Open Forum
Chairs: R. Brown, M. Dougherty
1430 - 15:00 TSSM Science Objectives summary (A. Coustenis)
1530 - 17:30 Discussion of high-level science objectives and mission and instrumental approaches to achieving these objectives
17:30 Adjourn

Posters

  1. Potentially active regions on Titan with Cassini/ VIMS and Radar data: Terrestrial analogues
    A. Solomonidou1, A. Coustenis2, S. Le Mouélic3, C. Sotin3,4, E. Bratsolis5, G. Bampasidis5, K. Kyriakopoulos1, and X. Moussas5
    asolomonidou@geol.uoa.gr
  2. Astrobiological applications of MEMS experiment on Titan’s lakes
    G. Bampasidis1,2, A. Coustenis2, X. Moussas1, P. Preka-Papadema1, A. Solomonidou2,3
    gbabasid@phys.uoa.gr
  3. Search for surface changes on Ontario Lacus, Titan’s south pole major lake, with CASSINI/VIMS
    T. Cornet1, S. Le Mouélic1, O. Bourgeois1, S. Rodriguez2, C. Sotin1,3, J.W. Barnes4, R.H. Brown5, K.H. Baines3, B.J. Buratti3, R.N. Clark6, P.D. Nicholson7.
    thomas.cornet@univ-nantes.fr
  4. Reconstruction of the Huygens Probe Entry and Descent Trajectory on Titan
    D.H. Atkinson1, B. Kazeminejad2, J.P. Lebreton3 , and the Huygens Descent Trajectory Working Group
    atkinson@uidaho.edu
  5. Outreach for future Titan exploration: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the
    TSSM mission
    X. Moussas1, G. Bampasidis1,2, A. Coustenis2, A. Solomonidou2,3
    xmoussas@phys.uoa.gr
  6. Mud volcanism and hydrocarbon-related biomineralization in the Gulf of Cadiz
    R. Merinero1, R. Lunar1, J. Martínez-Frías2
    rmeriner@geo.ucm.es
  7. Linking the Fluid Systems, Geology and Astrobiology of Titan
    L. Norman1, D. Fortes1, I. Crawford2
    lucy.norman.09@ucl.ac.uk
  8. Titan’s Surface Temperatures Maps From Cassini-CIRS Observations
    V. Cottini1, C.A. Nixon2, D.E. Jennings3, C.M. Anderson3, R.E. Samuelson2, P. G. J. Irwin4, F.M. Flasar3
    valeria.cottini@nasa.gov
  9. Titan’s Lakes: Semi-arid dissolution hollows through a superficial soluble layer covering a permeable substratum
    O. Bourgeois1, T. Lopez1, T. Cornet1, S. Le Mouélic1, C. Fleurant2, G. Tobie
    olivier.bourgeois@univ-nantes.fr
  10. Volatile delivery to Earth from Comets: clues from Titan isotopes
    J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez
    trigo@ieec.uab.es
  11. Examining Titan’s Atmospheric Conductivity Profile using Cassini Radio Occultations
    D. Ionita1, C. Paty1, P. Steffes2
    dionita@gatech.edu
  12. Habitabity of Titan’s and Ganymede’s internal oceans
    O. Prieto-Ballesteros1 and S. Vance2
    prietobo@inta.es
  13. Huygens landing site’s surface roughness from Radio Link bistatic measurements
    Miguel Pérez-Ayúcar
    mperez@sciops.esa.int
  14. About the possible sequestration of noble gases in Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes
    Daniel Cordier1, O. Mousis2, J. I. Lunine3, P. Lavvas4, L. Lobo5, Ferreira, A
    daniel.cordier@ensc-rennes.fr
  15. Advances in the Analysis of the Electric Conductivity and Field Measurements Performed during the Descent of the Huygens Probe on Titan
    R. Grard C. Béghin, M. Hamelin, J.J. López-Moreno, G.J. Molina-Cuberos K. Schwingenschuh, F. Simoes8 and PWA-HASI Team
    rgrard@rssd.esa.int
  16. A plasma-driven Schumanand the putative ocean buried at some 45 km depth disclosed by PWA-HASI
    C. Béghin, M. Hamelin, O. Randriamboarison, C. Sotin and PWA-HASI Team
    cbeghin@cnrs-orleans.fr