Titan's changing lakes |
Titan's changing lakes |
Jan 29 2009, 07:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Today's big news?
http://ciclops.org/view/5471/CASSINI_FINDS...ILL_TITAN_LAKES Changes in the south polar region were announced late last year. Is there more to this story now?? |
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Oct 8 2009, 09:13 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hmm. It does seem as if the 'desert' equatorial regions get some gully-washer storms, though. Huygens sure looks like it's sitting in a flood channel...maybe an arroyo?
Would expect such storms to start popping as the season change progresses, if they happen with any regularity at all. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 8 2009, 09:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Huygens sure looks like it's sitting in a flood channel...maybe an arroyo? It seems ages since I posed the question: Where is Curien Station? Is it for once and all the latitude and longitude where the probe landed, or does it move when Huygens gets washed along a bit, maybe even buried? (The first option is itself problematic as we now know, due to the variable rotation state of Titan's floating crust.) I think a typical surmise just now would be that at any given tropical location floods are more like millennial events than seasonal ones. The changes now unfolding at high latitudes are exciting enough but, as VP points out, we need to watch for a few years more before anyone can do more than make informed guesses about the big picture. That's what's so great about this amazing active world. Everyone has a ringside seat at the show and nobody knows what may happen next. |
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