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 10 2021, 12:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Short new paper out in JGR (Open Access) summarizing and contextualizing the bathymetry results from Cassini. Was quite pleased with the summary figure
http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006786 |
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Apr 11 2021, 01:51 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
I notice that for the three northern tracks, where ethane abundance is estimated, it increases from north to south. With three data points, there's a 33% probability of getting them in order by random, so that's very far from significance, but I wonder if it means that methane could be entering from the north on a systematic basis. E.g., higher rainfall rates near the pole. I'm thinking of this by analogy with the salinity in the San Francisco Bay, where places near to where rivers flow in have lower salinity and the salinity is highest near the Golden Gate.
Of course, this is reading a lot into a little data. |
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