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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 43, Issue 7, Pages 3088-3094Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067795
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- NASA's Cassini Project
- Cassini Data Analysis and Participating Scientist program
- Cassini UVIS program via NASA [JPL.1459109]
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We propose that C4N2 ice clouds observed in Titan's springtime polar stratosphere arise due to solid-state photochemistry occurring within extant ice cloud particles of HCN-HC3N mixtures. This formation process resembles the halogen-induced ice particle surface chemistry that leads to condensed nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) particles and ozone depletion in Earth's polar stratosphere. As our analysis of the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer 478 cm(-1) ice emission feature demonstrates, this solid-state photochemistry mechanism eliminates the need for the relatively high C4N2 saturation vapor pressures required (even though they are not observed) when the ice is produced through the usual procedure of direct condensation from the vapor.
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