Author/Authors :
Barnes، نويسنده , , Jason W. and Bow، نويسنده , , Jacob T. Schwartz، نويسنده , , Jacob and Brown، نويسنده , , Robert H. and Soderblom، نويسنده , , Jason M. and Hayes، نويسنده , , Alexander G. and Vixie، نويسنده , , Graham and Le Mouélic، نويسنده , , Stéphane and Rodriguez، نويسنده , , Sébastien and Sotin، نويسنده , , Christophe and Jaumann، نويسنده , , Ralf and Stephan، نويسنده , , Katrin and So، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
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.
