Authors: Robert S. Chambers
The purpose of this project is to test the proposed circuitry and materials required in order to attempt to measure the thermal properties of the fluid (either atmosphere or ocean) expected to be found on the surface of Titan, a satellite of Saturn. The proposed experiment forms part of the contribution of the University of Kent at Canterbury Unit for Space Sciences to the Surface Science Package of the Huygens Probe, part of the joint ESA/NASA Cassini Mission to the Saturn system launched in 1996. The experiment uses the “transient hot wire” method to obtain an accurate measure of both the thermal conductivity and diffusivity of a surrounding fluid. The advantage of this method is that it requires only a measurement of variation of resistance in a wire over a short period. This method is widely used in laboratory research, but has never before been attempted on such a small scale and at so great a distance.
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