Prebiotic-like chemistry on Titan

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The Process of Tholin Formation in Titan's Upper Atmosphere

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The Sand Seas of Titan: Cassini RADAR Observations of Longitudinal Dunes

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Photochemical Modeling of Titan's Atmosphere

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Current state of modeling the photochemistry of Titan's mutually dependent atmosphere and ionosphere

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Coupling photochemistry with haze formation in Titan's atmosphere, Part I: Model description

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Titan's methane cycle

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Titan's internal structure inferred from a coupled thermal-orbital model

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Experimental laboratory simulation of Titan’s atmosphere: aerosols and gas phase

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New Millimeter Heterodyne Observations of Titan: Vertical Distributions of Nitriles HCN, HC3N, CH3CN, and the Isotopic Ratio 15N/14N in Its Atmosphere

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Titan's inventory of organic surface materials

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Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper

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Gravity Field, Shape, and Moment of Inertia of Titan

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The Greenhouse and Antigreenhouse Effects on Titan

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Possibilities for methanogenic life in liquid methane on the surface of Titan

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Correlations between Cassini VIMS spectra and RADAR SAR images: Implications for Titan's surface composition and the character of the Huygens Probe Landing Site

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Detection and mapping of hydrocarbon deposits on Titan

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Titan trace gaseous composition from CIRS at the end of the Cassini–Huygens prime mission

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Mountains on Titan observed by Cassini Radar

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The methane cycle on Titan

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Oxygen compounds in Titan's stratosphere as observed by Cassini CIRS

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Polar methane accumulation and rainstorms on Titan from simulations of the methane cycle

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Distribution and interplay of geologic processes on Titan from Cassini radar data

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Specular reflection on Titan: Liquids in Kraken Mare

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Exobiological Implications of a Possible Ammonia–Water Ocean inside Titan

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A wind origin for Titan's haze structure

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Titan's Primordial Soup: Formation of Amino Acids via Low-Temperature Hydrolysis of Tholins

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Formation of nitrogenated organic aerosols in the Titan upper atmosphere

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Biologically Enhanced Energy and Carbon Cycling on Titan?

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On the amount of heavy molecular ions in Titan's ionosphere

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C4N2 ice in Titan's north polar stratosphere

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Organic sedimentary deposits in Titan’s dry lakebeds: Probable evaporite

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Resurfacing of Titan by ammonia-water cryomagma

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Complex Refractive Index of Titan's Aerosol Analogues in the 200–900 nm Domain

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Numerical calculations of the longevity of impact oases on Titan

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TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission

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Photochemical kinetics uncertainties in modeling Titan’s atmosphere: A review

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Organic chemistry in the oceans of Titan

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Reflectance spectra and chemical structure of Titan's tholins: Application to the analysis of Cassini–Huygens observations

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Analytic theory of Titan’s Schumann resonance: Constraints on ionospheric conductivity and buried water ocean

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How Measurements of Rate Coefficients at Low Temperature Increase the Predictivity of Photochemical Models of Titan’s Atmosphere

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Titan's hypothesized ocean properties: The influence of surface temperature and atmospheric composition uncertainties

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Active shoreline of Ontario Lacus, Titan: A morphological study of the lake and its surroundings

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Experimental simulation of Titan's atmosphere: Detection of ammonia and ethylene oxide

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Radiolysis and Photolysis of Icy Satellite Surfaces: Experiments and Theory

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Saturn's Titan: Surface change, ammonia, and implications for atmospheric and tectonic activity

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The geology of Hotei Regio, Titan: Correlation of Cassini VIMS and RADAR

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Locally enhanced precipitation organized by planetary-scale waves on Titan

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Galactic cosmic rays and N2 dissociation on Titan

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Production yields of organics of astrobiological interest from H2O–NH3 hydrolysis of Titan's tholins

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Very high resolution mass spectrometry of HCN polymers and tholins

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Titan's lakes chemical composition: Sources of uncertainties and variability

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Formation of Titan in Saturn's subnebula : constraints from Huygens probe measurements

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Results from the Huygens probe on Titan

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The fate of aerosols on the surface of Titan

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Oxirane: An Exotic Oxygenated Organic Compound on Titan?

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Analysis of a cryolava flow-like feature on Titan

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Photochemical Enrichment of Deuterium in Titan's Atmosphere: New Insights from Cassini - Huygens

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Phosphorus chemistry on Titan

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Exobiology and Planetary Protection of icy moons

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Miller experiments in atomistic computer simulations

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The Lakes and Seas of Titan

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Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

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Earth as a Tool for Astrobiology—A European Perspective

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Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…

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The Emergence of Life

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Titan's cold case files - Outstanding questions after Cassini-Huygens

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Can laboratory tholins mimic the chemistry producing Titan's aerosols? A review in light of ACP experimental results

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Photochemical activity of Titan’s low-altitude condensed haze

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The Titan Haze Simulation experiment on COSmIC: Probing Titan’s atmospheric chemistry at low temperature

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Prebiotic-chemistry inspired polymer coatings for biomedical and material science applications

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The role of borosilicate glass in Miller–Urey experiment

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Optical constants of Titan aerosols and their tholins analogs: Experimental results and modeling/observational data

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Evidence for the Formation of Pyrimidine Cations from the Sequential Reactions of Hydrogen Cyanide with the Acetylene Radical Cation

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Science goals and mission concept for the future exploration of Titan and Enceladus

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Identification of primary amines in Titan tholins using microchip nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis

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Low-Temperature Alkaline pH Hydrolysis of Oxygen-Free Titan Tholins: Carbonates' Impact

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Laboratory studies of photochemistry and gas phase radical reaction kinetics relevant to planetary atmospheres

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Prebiotic Organic Chemistry of Formamide and the Origin of Life in Planetary Conditions: What We Know and What Is the Future

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Reaction Mechanism and Product Branching Ratios of the CH + C3H6 Reaction: A Theoretical Study

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Titan's organic aerosols: Molecular composition and structure of laboratory analogues inferred from pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry analysis

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The effect of like-charge attraction on aerosol growth in the atmosphere of Titan

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