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Nantes Université: Nantes, FR

2021-01-01 to present | Professor (Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences)
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Christophe Sotin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: La Cañada Flintridge, California, US

2012-10-01 to 2020-12-31 | Chief Scientist (Solar System Exploration)
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Christophe Sotin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: La Cañada Flintridge, California, US

2007-08-26 to 2012-09-30 | Senior research scientist
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Christophe Sotin

Nantes Université: Nantes, FR

1993-09-01 to 2007-08-25 | Professor (Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences)
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Christophe Sotin

Works (23)

Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: A. T. Fisher; K. L. Dickerson; D. K. Blackman; N. G. Randolph‐Flagg; C. R. German; C. Sotin
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Dynamics of Titan's high-pressure ice layer

2024-05-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Klara Kalousova; Christophe Sotin
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Mapping VIMS specular reflections on Titan’s surface during the Cassini mission

2024-05-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Benoît Seignovert; Christophe Sotin; Kenneth J. Lawrence; Michael Heslar
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Thermal and chemical evolution of Ganymede's primitive core

2024-05-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Valentin Gibet; Gael Choblet; Christophe Sotin; Steve Vance; Jérémy Guignard; Gabriel Tobie
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Evolution of Impact Melt Pools on Titan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Klára Kalousová; Shigeru Wakita; Christophe Sotin; Catherine D. Neish; Jason M. Soderblom; Ondřej Souček; Brandon C. Johnson
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Carbon-rich icy moons and dwarf planets

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Bruno Reynard; Christophe Sotin
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Reply to the ‘Comment on Cage occupancy of methane clathrate hydrates in the ternary H2O–NH3–CH4 system’ by S. Alavi and J. Ripmeester, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, DOI: 10.1039/D1CC06526B

Chemical Communications
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Mathieu Choukroun; Claire Petuya; Tuan H. Vu; Arnaud Desmedt; Ashley Gerard Davies; Christophe Sotin
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Titan Stratospheric Haze Bands Observed in Cassini VIMS as Tracers of Meridional Circulation

The Planetary Science Journal
2022-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: N. W. Kutsop; A. G. Hayes; P. M. Corlies; S. Le Mouélic; J. I. Lunine; C. A. Nixon; P. Rannou; S. Rodriguez; M. T. Roman; C. Sotin et al.
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Dynamics of Mixed Clathrate‐Ice Shells on Ocean Worlds

Geophysical Research Letters
2022-04-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Evan Carnahan; Steven D. Vance; Marc A. Hesse; Baptiste Journaux; Christophe Sotin
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Theoretical Considerations on the Characteristic Timescales of Hydrogen Generation by Serpentinization Reactions on Enceladus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
2022-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Damien Daval; Gaël Choblet; Christophe Sotin; François Guyot
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Regional mapping of aerosol population and surface albedo of Titan by the massive inversion of the Cassini/VIMS dataset

2021-10-30 | Other
Contributors: Sebastien Rodriguez; Maël Es-Sayeh; Thomas Cornet; Luca Maltagliati; Thomas Appéré; Pascal Rannou; Stephane Le Mouelic; Christophe Sotin; Jason Barnes; Robert Brown
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The density structure of Titan’s outer ice shell

Icarus
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Ondřej Čadek; Klára Kalousová; Jakub Kvorka; Christophe Sotin
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A Recipe for the Geophysical Exploration of Enceladus

The Planetary Science Journal
2021-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Anton I. Ermakov; Ryan S. Park; Javier Roa; Julie C. Castillo-Rogez; James T. Keane; Francis Nimmo; Edwin S. Kite; Christophe Sotin; T. Joseph W. Lazio; Gregor Steinbrügge et al.
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Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside

The Planetary Science Journal
2021-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Shannon M. MacKenzie; Samuel P. D. Birch; Sarah Hörst; Christophe Sotin; Erika Barth; Juan M. Lora; Melissa G. Trainer; Paul Corlies; Michael J. Malaska; Ella Sciamma-O’Brien et al.
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Detection of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet

The Astronomical Journal
2021-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mark R. Swain; Raissa Estrela; Gael M. Roudier; Christophe Sotin; Paul B. Rimmer; Adriana Valio; Robert West; Kyle Pearson; Noah Huber-Feely; Robert T. Zellem
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A chemical composition map for Titan’s surface

2021-03-04 | Other
Contributors: Anezina Solomonidou; Athena Coustenis; Rosaly Lopes; Michael Malaska; Alice Le Gall; Bernard Schmitt; Ashley Schoenfeld; Steve Wall; Kenneth Lawrence; Christophe Sotin et al.
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The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Raissa Estrela; Mark R. Swain; Akash Gupta; Christophe Sotin; Adriana Valio
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The Insulating Effect of Methane Clathrate Crust on Titan's Thermal Evolution

Geophysical Research Letters
2020-07-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Klára Kalousová; Christophe Sotin
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Carbon-rich composition of the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and asteroid 1-Ceres

2020-03-23 | Other
Contributors: Bruno Reynard; Adrien Neri; François Guyot; Christophe Sotin
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Rapid Formation of Clathrate Hydrate From Liquid Ethane and Water Ice on Titan

Geophysical Research Letters
2020-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: T. H. Vu; M. Choukroun; C. Sotin; V. Muñoz‐Iglesias; H. E. Maynard‐Casely
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The Cassini VIMS archive of Titan: From browse products to global infrared color maps

Icarus
2019-02 | Journal article
Contributors: S. Le Mouélic; T. Cornet; S. Rodriguez; C. Sotin; B. Seignovert; J.W. Barnes; R.H. Brown; K.H. Baines; B.J. Buratti; R.N. Clark et al.
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Melting in High‐Pressure Ice Layers of Large Ocean Worlds—Implications for Volatiles Transport

Geophysical Research Letters
2018-08-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Klára Kalousová; Christophe Sotin
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Titan's Meteorology Over the Cassini Mission: Evidence for Extensive Subsurface Methane Reservoirs

Geophysical Research Letters
2018-06-16 | Journal article
Contributors: E. P. Turtle; J. E. Perry; J. M. Barbara; A. D. Del Genio; S. Rodriguez; S. Le Mouélic; C. Sotin; J. M. Lora; S. Faulk; P. Corlies et al.
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Peer review (3 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

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