Titan's topography, strange.... |
Titan's topography, strange.... |
Apr 12 2009, 12:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Recent article in Science by Zebker et al.:
Zebker et al. Science in press, "Size and Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan". doi: 10.1126/science.1168905 (published online April 2, 2009) Link to abstract (pay-for article): http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1168905 Article on spaceref discusses this paper: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27912 Figure 3 from the Science article is a global elevation map relative to barycenter. Key points of article:
"Xanadu seems to be systematically lower than other parts of the equatorial belt, and not uplifted like most mountainous areas on Earth." (quote from Fig. 3 caption in article) -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Sep 26 2009, 09:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 1-April 08 From: Minnesota ! Member No.: 4081 |
Wow such an incredible discussion ! It is time for some pretty images however.
The altimetry data paper of Bryan Stiles et al http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.032 published earlier this year did provide sensible correlations for many of the radar swath images although that was not stressed in their paper. Altitudinal data for the T7 swath for example provides a good concordance of downslope gradient and surface flow-fluvial features. |
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