Lakes in the limelight, the 2013 image bonanza continues |
Lakes in the limelight, the 2013 image bonanza continues |
Sep 13 2013, 02:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
A fantastic collection of new images of the northern lakes has just arrived: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=298704
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Nov 11 2014, 09:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
It sets the mind racing, that's for sure. It reminds me of the uncomprehended phenomena, some benign and some dangerous, on Stanislaw Lem's imagined world Solaris.
The important thing here is the statistics of two. Just one is a remote possibility, but there are never just two of anything. Two in a relatively small sample of the liquid surface in both space and time means that these things pop up quite a lot. I'm left wondering about parts of the lakes and seas that have been imaged only once. Could a few of those other islands be 'magic' ones too? Do the radar images of the 'magic' ones differ in any way that would allow us to distinguish? I also wonder about the lake coastlines. Are there undetected inlets covered with rafts of flotsam disguising the outlines? Luckily there's VIMS as well as SAR this time, so expect a good science harvest! |
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