Titan, a world like no other…

Saturn's largest moon Titan has a surface that is dominated by molecular materials, much of which are photochemically produced in the moon's atmosphere. Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been working with a number of collaborators to investigate potential minerals that would be expected to form on the surface and subsurface of Titan from these molecular solids. To date we’ve found 6 brand new materials, but have pointed out that there’s the potential for many many more.

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