NAI
Christophe Sotin
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current Projects
- Inv 1 - Geochemical Reactor: Energy Production at Water-Rock Interfaces — 2016 NAI
- Inv 3 – Planetary Disequilibria: Characterizing Ocean Worlds and Implications for Habitability — 2015 NAI
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2014 NAI
- Task 3.3.1: Solubility of Organics in Simulated Titan Lake Solutions — 2013 NAI
- Investigation 2: Survivability on Icy Worlds — 2013 NAI
- Task 1.1.1: Leaching of Radiogenic Potassium From Titan’s Core Into Its Ocean — 2013 NAI
- Task 3.3.1 Solubility of Gases and Organics in Liquid Methane and Ethane — 2012 NAI
- Task 1.1.2.2 Models of the Reaction Between Hydrocarbons and Water Ice (Part 2) — 2012 NAI
- Task 1.1.2.1 Models of the Reaction Between Hydrocarbons and Water Ice (Part 1) — 2012 NAI
- Task 1.1.1 Models of the Internal Dynamics: Formation of Liquids in the Subsurface and Relationships With Cryovolcanism — 2012 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Task 1.2 Interaction of Methane/ethane With Water Ice — 2011 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Task 1.1.2 Models of the Reaction Between Hydrocarbons and Water Ice — 2011 NAI
- Task 1.2 Interaction of Methane/ethane With Water Ice — 2010 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2010 NAI
- Task 1.1.2 Models of the Internal Dynamics: Formation of Liquids in the Subsurface and Relationships With Cryovolcanism — 2010 NAI
- Task 1.2 Interaction of Methane/ethane With Water Ice — 2009 NAI
- Task 1.1.2 Models of the Internal Dynamics: Formation of Liquids in the Subsurface and Relationships With Cryovolcanism — 2009 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Alibert, Y., Broeg, C., Benz, W., Wuchterl, G., Grasset, O., Sotin, C., … White, G. J. (2010). Origin and Formation of Planetary Systems. Astrobiology, 10(1), 19–32. doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0372
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Béghin, C., Randriamboarison, O., Hamelin, M., Karkoschka, E., Sotin, C., Whitten, R. C., … Simões, F. (2012). Analytic theory of Titan’s Schumann resonance: Constraints on ionospheric conductivity and buried water ocean. Icarus, 218(2), 1028–1042. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.005
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Béghin, C., Sotin, C., & Hamelin, M. (2010). Titan’s native ocean revealed beneath some 45km of ice by a Schumann-like resonance. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 342(6), 425–433. doi:10.1016/j.crte.2010.03.003
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Choukroun, M., & Sotin, C. (2012). Is Titan’s shape caused by its meteorology and carbon cycle?. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(4), n/a–n/a. doi:10.1029/2011gl050747
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Choukroun, M., Grasset, O., Tobie, G., & Sotin, C. (2010). Stability of methane clathrate hydrates under pressure: Influence on outgassing processes of methane on Titan. Icarus, 205(2), 581–593. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.011
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Cornet, T., Bourgeois, O., Le Mouélic, S., Rodriguez, S., Lopez Gonzalez, T., Sotin, C., … Nicholson, P. D. (2012). Geomorphological significance of Ontario Lacus on Titan: Integrated interpretation of Cassini VIMS, ISS and RADAR data and comparison with the Etosha Pan (Namibia). Icarus, 218(2), 788–806. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.013
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Cornet, T., Bourgeois, O., Le Mouélic, S., Rodriguez, S., Sotin, C., Barnes, J. W., … Nicholson, P. D. (2012). Edge detection applied to Cassini images reveals no measurable displacement of Ontario Lacus’ margin between 2005 and 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 117(E7), n/a–n/a. doi:10.1029/2012je004073
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Coustenis, A., Atreya, S. K., Balint, T., Brown, R. H., Dougherty, M. K., Ferri, F., … Young, E. F. (2008). TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission. Exp Astron, 23(3), 893–946. doi:10.1007/s10686-008-9103-z
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Léger, A., Grasset, O., Fegley, B., Codron, F., Albarede, A. F., Barge, P., … Sotin, C. (2011). The extreme physical properties of the CoRoT-7b super-Earth. Icarus, 213(1), 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.02.004
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Sotin, C., Lawrence, K. J., Reinhardt, B., Barnes, J. W., Brown, R. H., Hayes, A. G., … Stephan, K. (2012). Observations of Titan’s Northern lakes at 5μm: Implications for the organic cycle and geology. Icarus, 221(2), 768–786. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.017
See Project - Choukroun, M., Grasset, O., Tobie, G. & Sotin, C. (Aug 2009). Stability of methane clathrate hydrates under pressure: Influence on outgassing processes of methane on Titan. Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society 6th Meeting. Singapore. See Project
- Hussmann, H., Choblet, G., Lainey, V., Matson, D., Sotin, C. & Tobie, V.H.T. Internal Processes: Energy Sources and Heat Transport in Icy Satellites; Europlanet vol. on Icy Satellites. See Project
- Hussmann, H., Choblet, G., Lainey, V., Matson, D., Sotin, C., Tobie & Van Hoolst, T. (2010). Internal Processes: Energy Sources and Heat Transport in Icy Satellites. In: Grasset et al. (Eds.). Internal Processes: Energy Sources and Heat Transport in Icy Satellites. See Project
- Mumma, M., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Schubert, G., Hussmann, H., Lainey, V., Matson, D., McKinnon, W., Sohl, F., Sotin, C., Tobie, G., Turrini, D. & Van Hoolst, T. (2010). Evolution of the Moons [Book Chapter]. Europlanet vol. on Icy Satellites. See Project
- Schubert, G., Hussmann, H., Lainey, V., Matson, D., McKinnon, W., Sohl, F., Sotin, C., Tobie, G., Turrini, D. & Van Hoolst, T. Evolution of the Moons; Europlanet. Icy Satellites. See Project
- Sotin, C., Mitri, G., Rappaport, N., Schubert, G. & Stevenson, D. (2009). Titan’s Interior Structure. In: Brown, R.H., Lebreton, J.P. & Waite, H. (Eds.). Titan. Springer-Verlag. See Project
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Phone:
818-354-2467 -
Email:
christophe.sotin@jpl.nasa.gov -
Discipline
Geophysics
