Lakes in the limelight, the 2013 image bonanza continues |
Lakes in the limelight, the 2013 image bonanza continues |
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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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Yeah. A funny thing happened on the way to the Universe Today article....
About a month ago we had a press release that presented our Icarus paper on experiments to figure how much nitrogen goes into lake fluids. Lotsa fun implications. Lakes "breathing" in and out, gas release from liquid mixing, cool stuff (!). And we stated pretty much "Oh yeah, and bubbles might possibly could be an explanation for observations of Magic Islands in Titan seas." I mean, sure, it's still on the list of possible suspects. A month later, another paper comes out in Nature Astronomy that describes model calculations (not using our new lab data, I might add) that had a press release saying that the problem was solved. And somehow in a funky twist, the Universe Today article combined the Nature Astronomy article's press release first paragraphs with the last paragraphs of our earlier press release. So basically, we got an extra bonus 15 minutes of fame riding on the back of a later paper that came to some of the same conclusions that we'd already published earlier. I'm really not quite too sure what to make of all this.... But as for the observed Magic Islands in the lakes, I agree with Ralph that wind is a good (and leading) suspect for Magic Islands. But the properties of Titan lakes definitely causes some funkiness. (As in, no freezing of methane on Titan - but that's not a new discovery, our lab experiments just help with the "why".) -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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