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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Apr 24 2017, 05:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
No, a bubble plume due to compositional mixing would not be anchored to the lake floor. It would be present anywhere there was a lower layer of ethane-richer fluid overlain by methane richer-fluid. It could be anywhere. And if there was a "bubble event" it could migrate around as the different portions of the lake hit compositional equilibrium at different times. It'd be really fun and exciting to watch.
There could, however, be places more prone to compositional mixing. Places where local winds are more prone to stir up the lakes fluids, cause mixing, and then generate a bubble-splosion. This could explain Magic Islands reappearing at same location (after a recharge of compositional disequilibrium.) (Please note that Occam is starting to have a 5-o'clock shadow at this point....) -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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