29 juin-1 juil. 2022 Lyon (France)
Reanalysis of Titan INMS mass spectra to follow the evolution of traces species
Maélie Coutelier  1@  , Thomas Gautier  2@  , Koyena Das  3@  , Joseph Serigano  4@  
1 : LATMOS
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne université, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS
2 : LATMOS, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ-UPSaclay, Guyancourt; LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne université, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS
3 : LATMOS
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne université, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS
4 : Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Baltimore]

With 13 years of observations, the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) onboard the Cassini spacecraft has observed the upper atmosphere of Titan through two seasons: winter and spring. The complex atmosphere is mainly composed of N2, CH4, H2 and Ar, but a lot more carbon and nitrogen bearing trace species have been observed by INMS and other instruments. Using data from the closed source neutral mode of INMS instrument, we studied the abundance and variation of traces neutral species in Titan ionosphere, between 1500 and 850 km of altitude. We will present an ongoing effort on the reanalysis of the entire INMS Titan's observation dataset. To do so we recalibrated INMS data by taking into account the dead time correction, the ram pressure enhancement, the saturation correction, the increase of pressure in the chamber with the decreases of altitude, the sensitivity and the contamination by thruster firing. In addition, species entering the instrument were ionized and fragmented into ions inside INMS chamber, making difficult the identification of different species in such complex mass spectra. To retrieve the molecular mixing ratios we used a Monte-Carlo sampling on the fragmentation pattern to deconvolve the signal. This enabled the retrieval of vertical and seasonal variation of Titan's atmosphere minor components.


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