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Title
Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, November 2006
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0608561103
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Authors

Melissa G. Trainer, Alexander A. Pavlov, H. Langley DeWitt, Jose L. Jimenez, Christopher P. McKay, Owen B. Toon, Margaret A. Tolbert

Abstract

Recent exploration by the Cassini/Huygens mission has stimulated a great deal of interest in Saturn's moon, Titan. One of Titan's most captivating features is the thick organic haze layer surrounding the moon, believed to be formed from photochemistry high in the CH(4)/N(2) atmosphere. It has been suggested that a similar haze layer may have formed on the early Earth. Here we report laboratory experiments that demonstrate the properties of haze likely to form through photochemistry on Titan and early Earth. We have used a deuterium lamp to initiate particle production in these simulated atmospheres from UV photolysis. Using a unique analysis technique, the aerosol mass spectrometer, we have studied the chemical composition, size, and shape of the particles produced as a function of initial trace gas composition. Our results show that the aerosols produced in the laboratory can serve as analogs for the observed haze in Titan's atmosphere. Experiments performed under possible conditions for early Earth suggest a significant optical depth of haze may have dominated the early Earth's atmosphere. Aerosol size measurements are presented, and implications for the haze layer properties are discussed. We estimate that aerosol production on the early Earth may have been on the order of 10(14) g.year(-1) and thus could have served as a primary source of organic material to the surface.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 4%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 136 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 28%
Researcher 35 24%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 6%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 14 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 44 30%
Chemistry 38 26%
Physics and Astronomy 20 14%
Environmental Science 8 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 20 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 144. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 December 2023.
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#5,106
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#554
of 165,517 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#8
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