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Article Dans Une Revue Icarus Année : 2011

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

Jason Barnes
Robert Brown
Christophe Sotin
Ralf Jaumann
Laurence Soderblom
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Roger Clark
Bonnie Buratti
Kevin Baines
Philip Nicholson

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We report the discovery of organic sedimentary deposits at the bottom of dry lakebeds near Titan's north pole in observations from the Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). We show evidence that the deposits are evaporitic, making Titan just the third known planetary body with evaporitic processes after Earth and Mars, and is the first that uses a solvent other than water.

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hal-03657784 , version 1 (08-03-2023)

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Jason Barnes, Jacob Bow, Jacob Schwartz, Robert Brown, Jason Soderblom, et al.. Organic sedimentary deposits in Titan’s dry lakebeds: Probable evaporite. Icarus, 2011, 216 (1), pp.136 - 140. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.022⟩. ⟨hal-03657784⟩
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