Following our two team meetings in 2022 and 2023, the team has published 5 papers:
February 2026: A fifth paper, about terrestrial analogs to Titan, was led by Conor Nixon. Several collaborators outside the Titan ISSI team were asked to provide contributions. This paper is now accepted in the journal ‘Reviews of Geophysics’.
Conor Nixon et al. (2025) Terrestrial Analogs to Titan for Geophysical Research; Paper #2025RG000909R, in press in Reviews of Geophysics.
January 2026: The study about the transfert of organics from the core to the ocean during the thermochemical evolution of Titan’s core was led by Kelly Miller. This very detailed paper is published in Icarus.
Miller K., Melwani Daswani M., Sotin C., Cockell C.S., Neish C., Malaska M.J., Farnsworth K.K., Nixon C.A., Soderlund K.M., Higgins P.M., Affholder A., Lopes R.M.C. (2026) Titan’s refractory core evolution: Implications for organics in its subsurface ocean; Icarus, 116961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2026.116961
February 2025: The study entitled ‘The viability of glycine fermentation in Titan’s subsurface ocean’ has been published in Planetary Science Journal. This is a multi disciplinary paper that has been co-authored by biologists, chemists, and physicists, all interested in planetary science. This is the second team paper coming after the meetings we held in Bern in 2022 and 2023.
Antonin Affholder, Peter M. Higgins, Charles S. Cockell ,Catherine Neish, Krista M. Soderlund, Michael J. Malaska, Kendra K. Farnsworth, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Conor A. Nixon, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Kelly E. Miller, and Christophe Sotin (2025) The Viability of Glycine Fermentation in Titan’s Subsurface Ocean; Planetary Science Journal, 6:86. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/adbc66
February 2024: The study entitled ‘Evolution of Impact Melt Pools on Titan’ was triggered by discussions between Catherine, Klara, and Christophe during the ISSI team meeting in January 2023. The subgroup worked with a group of research scientists involved in modelling the state of Titan’s crust after an impact. The paper is now published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
Kalousová, K., Wakita, S., Sotin, C., Neish, C. D., Soderblom, J. M., Souček, O., & Johnson, B. C. (2024). Evolution of impact melt pools on Titan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129, e2023JE008107. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008107
February 2024: The study on the transfert of organic molecules from the surface to the interior was led by Catherine. It was published in Astrobiology. This is the first team paper.
Organic Input to Titan’s Subsurface Ocean Through Impact Cratering, Neish et al., 2024, Astrobiology, 24,2, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2023.0055