Updated Titan Map Options

[Daniele_bianchin...]

And this one might be of interest to Daniele


Titan: Ligeia Mare and environs (T-28, T-29, T-25, T-104)

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You are fantastic Ian R. If I had time I would do every possible lake of Titano .. probably I'll do Ontario Lacus or Kraken MAre.

[jasedm]

At the risk of not actually adding anything to the discussion, I concur. These are fabulously clear views - congratulations to all for the hard work.

[hendric]

Amazing work Ian, looks like we are flying over it! Ligeia looks to my like a Gryphon or large bird.

[v7x]

Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21923

Is it possible we will get a map version of this?

[Phil Stooke]

You have to have it as a map before it can be rendered as a spherical view. Eventually it will be released.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

Mind-boggling experience follws:

https://data.caltech.edu/records/1173

A merged VIMS-ISS map of Titan. It is similar to the map projected into globes above.

Phil

[JRehling]

That is really nice! Minimizes the seams and artifacts about as well as one could ask for given uneven coverage in the original data. Among other things, I really appreciate the way that Xanadu stands apart from the bright (but not AS bright) terrain to its south and east.

[ngunn]

A splendid map indeed. I hope somebody decides to manufacture globes based on that.

[JohnVV]

not a real globe but a screenshot

[ngunn]

Very nice. Where do you get the relief information to generate the shading in those views?

[JohnVV]

the height data from the SAR footprints closely match the black and white imaging data on a large scale
and seeing as there is no shadowing in the images i used that map( not the new colored map above) as a base to make a normal map

there is a tool for celestia that correctly maps the normals to a sphere ( called "nms" )
but more on that is for the image processing forum

[ngunn]

That's as much explanation as I was hoping for, much appreciated. The results are beautiful and entirely plausible.

[vikingmars]

Thanks a lot JohnVV.
Your renderings are very nice indeed and make Titan looks like a planet taken from our sci-fi TV series of the 60's or 70's (Star Trek and Space : 1999)

[sittingduck]

I have made an impressionist map of a segment of the T8 radar swath including several of the mountains ridges of central Adiri. The topography is greatly exaggerated for illustrative purposes.

https://www.astro.rug.nl/~oberg/central_adiri.jpg

I used the following sources to help inform the illustration:

- Jason Perry's Titan RADAR SAR Swath's website
- Ian Regan's ISS global map
- Lopes et al. 2019 "A global geomorphologic map of Saturn’s moon Titan"
- Radebaugh et al. 2007 "Mountains on Titan Observed by Cassini Radar"
- Liu et al. 2015 "The tectonics of Titan: Global structural mapping from Cassini RADAR"

Please let me know if anything goes too far beyond artistic liberties and could stand to be corrected.

- Nick Oberg

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[Phil Stooke]

That's a beautiful piece of work. I hope we will see more!

Phil