Wow! Thanks, Phil!

That really fills in the northern terra incognita in the cylindrical projection! Nice to see it all being realized.

-Mike

Fantastic Phil....

Craig

Phil, it's really fantastic Thank you very much.

Hokay.... I tried to add the equatorial RADAR pieces over Phil Stooke's latest map to give a big RADAR composite on top of ISS images:



It sorta lines up, except in the mid-latitudes of the equatorial pieces (my fault, I have no idea how to warp and adapt the equatorial swaths to cylindrical projection in the higher latitudes.)

At least it might help some future mapping goo-roo line it all up for real. (Phil? ExploitCorporations? Scalbers? Somebody heeeelp?)

-Mike

I'd love to see Phil's map in a proper Mercator projection -- those northern lakes would look HUGE.

Here is the simple cylindrical map with reprojected versions of all the SAR swaths between Ta and T21 except the HiSAR stuff and T18 (will try to add that soon):

Beautiful!

Thanks, VP!

-Mike

You're the man, VP.

--Emily

Thanks VP!!!!

Is this release of the ISS Titan map part of your work?

I was just using this map to enlighten an office mate!!!!! Exploring a world by investigating the different equatorial albedo regions. Then the serendipty of the north polar passes (I know that main reason was to crank the inclination for CASSINI).
Soon we will have more RADAR over the south pole.

Those radar noodles across the surface and the refined imaging data really serve to illustrate that method. Fuzzy features slowly come into focus. The slow pealing away of mystery to reveal details with even more mystery.

Neat thing would be to have a movie showing the early Keck maps and then slowly overlaying the different CASSINI map versions (including each RADAR noodle as it occurred) until we see the current state. That would be a neat educational tool.

Any of you image gurus game for that?

Thanks to the CASINI team and all you UMSF folks!!!!!

Just Glorious!!!!

Craig

... and another version. Here I've taken VP's latest map and combined it with mine to link the radar strips. Then I did a bit of contrast modification. Less compressed, for ugordan.

Phil

Outstanding, thanks a lot Phil. That's a keeper!

Nice map

I'd love to see the movie someone described of morphing HST-Keck-etc-Cassini as our
knowledge improves. Could even start with the two-spot model fit to the near-IR lightcurve
in the early 90s

I notice on this map at the extreme left, just above the bunny rabbit, some vaguely
N-S striations (dunes) that I hadnt seen before and seem to be orthogonal to the
more typical orientation. Are these real or are they some sort of ISS artifact ?

"I notice on this map at the extreme left, just above the bunny rabbit, some vaguely
N-S striations (dunes) that I hadnt seen before and seem to be orthogonal to the
more typical orientation. Are these real or are they some sort of ISS artifact ?"


Heh heh! Good one, Ralph...

Phil

Er... isn't he being serious? I certainly think I see what he's talking about (including the "bunny rabbit", a bright two-eared formation that seems to be jogging along briskly to the west.) There's a rather large north-south dune field surrounding the Martha's Vineyard-shaped island with the big crater up around Tisbury. Doubtless I'm being dense and not seeing the joke -- unless this is just an in-joke between Ralph and Phil, in which case I won't be embarrassed.

I think Phil is picking up on my possibly unfair skepticism : if it's not Scottish, it's crap. Same for
RADAR.

Ralphocentric view is - orientation of features is contrary to expectation , could it be an
artifact? If so, it is then an ISS artifact.

If it is real, it would be very interesting.