VIMS sees tropical lakes in Shangri La! |
VIMS sees tropical lakes in Shangri La! |
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A news release has just appeared http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-172 concerning the discovery of possible 'tropical lakes' in the Shangri La area. A report will appear in Nature today. The area of Shangri La appears in the VIMS map below
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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 1-April 08 From: Minnesota ! Member No.: 4081 ![]() |
Thanks for the link and supplement page Nigel. The figure from the Nature article supplement contains the areas of suspected lakes.
The “one imaged by Radar, containing dunes (purple&inset)” (white arrow below left) caught my attention as we had an interesting post awhile back showing this area as a relative low spot in a combined T8 SAR topo image combination. (see below, right). In the later animated figure the dark blue low spot contains the same "island" as is in the inset in the left figure. The Huygens landing site is also highlighted at the end of the animation. |
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